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Biography
Moshe Safdie was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938. Educated in Israel during the formative years of the state, he moved to Canada with his family as a teenager, and eventually graduated from McGill University in 1961 with a degree in architecture.
After apprenticing with Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia, he returned to Montreal, taking charge of the master plan for the 1967 World's Fair (Expo '67); he also realized an adaptation of his graduation thesis as Habitat '67, the central feature of the exhibition.
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Habitat, which opened in 1967, soon became one of the lasting 20th-century icons of utopian urban living.
In 1970 Safdie established a Jerusalem branch office, commencing an intense involvement with the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
He was responsible for major segments of the restoration of the Old City and the reconstruction of the new center, linking the Old and New Cities. Over the years, his involvement expanded to include the New City of Modi'in, the new Yad Vashem Holo