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Habitat 67, Montréal
Safdie was 23. Twenty-three.
354 prefabricated boxes craned into a hillside village — the expo demonstration that became permanent housing because people refused to stop living in it.
Photo: Marc-André Desrosiers (Wikipedia Takes Montreal participant), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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raw concrete
Béton brut — the material itself.
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megastructures
Cities in a single building.