Visitors to Expo 67, the Canadian world’s fair that opened this weekend, were impressed by Habitat, the dramatic housing experiment built by 28-year-old Israeli architect Moshe Safdi and sponsored and paid for by the Canadian Government. (It was described yesterday as the “permanent symbol and landmark” of the fair, by NY Times architecture writer Ada Louise Huxtable.)
Habitat is a group of one-story and two-story homes arranged in a cluster of pyramids and jutting boxes, vaguely resembling a streamlined version of the cliffside pueblo dwellings of American Indians in the southwest. It is considered to be one of the most impressive housing experiments ever undertaken. Budget for the project came to $11,500,000 as skyrocking costs greatly raised original estimates.
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