An edition of The Production of Houses (1985)

The Production of Houses

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An edition of The Production of Houses (1985)

The Production of Houses

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Describes how the design and construction of a cluster of five homes were carried out under the guidance of Alexander’s architectural principles.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
381

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Subjects

House construction, Architecture, planning

Places

Mexicali, Mexico

Times

the mid 1970s
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1985, Oxford University Press
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First Sentence

"In the modern world, the idea that houses can be loved and beautiful has been eliminated almost altogether."

Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 11
I. The System of Production
Page 19
II. The Mexicali Project
Page 51
1. The Architect Builder
Page 63
2. The Builder's Yard
Page 89
3. The Collective Design of Common Land
Page 119
4. The Layout of Individual Houses
Page 157
5. Step by Step Construction
Page 209
6. Cost Control
Page 263
7. The Human Rhythm of the Process
Page 291
III. Large Scale Production
Page 323
IV. The Shift of Paradigm
Page 351
Postscript on Color
Page 375
Acknowledgments
Page 279

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Center for Environmental Structure Series
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
690/.837
Library of Congress
TH4811 .A46 1985, NA7110

Contributors

Contributor
Howard Davis
Contributor
Julio Martinez
Contributor
Don Corner

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
381 p. :
Number of pages
381
Weight
648 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3494162M
Internet Archive
productionofhous00alex
ISBN 10
0195032233
LCCN
82014097
OCLC/WorldCat
8668864
Library Thing
98216
Goodreads
106725

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