ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects. While still at university he had first taste of working abroad, when he went to Canada in 1964. During the Expo, staged in Montreal, Rod Hackney was based in Ottawa and rented an apartment on the eleventh floor of a high-rise tower. His second and final year abroad was in Libya between 1967 and 1968; here he was employed on a large, government-sponsored squatter resettlement programme. At that time the country was still ruled by King Idris, who was deposed by Colonel Gadaffi in a military coup shortly after Rod Hackney left. The Expo '67 show was a part of Mayor Drapeau's mission to transform Montreal into an international city.
