Moshe Safdie’s Son Reflects on Growing Up in His Father’s Visionary Prefab Experiment, Habitat ’67

“As it happens, Habitat’s groundbreaking also coincided with the realization of another of my father’s projects: me. And thus much of my early history is entwined with the building’s.”
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s May 2007 issue.

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