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The production of houses
- Title
- The production of houses / Christopher Alexander with Howard Davis, Julio Martinez, Donald Corner.
- Author
- Alexander, Christopher, 1936-2022
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
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- Description
- 381 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm
- Summary
- As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, the Oregon Experiment, and The Linz Café--defined a radical and fundamentally new process of environmental design. Alexander now gives us the latest book in his series--a book that puts his theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment he has envisioned. The Production of Houses centers around a group of buildings which Alexander and his associates built in 1976 in northern Mexico. Each house is different and the book explains how each family helped to lay out and construct its own home according to the family's own needs and in the framework of the pattern language. Numerous diagrams and tables as well as a variety of anecdotes make the day-today process clear. The Mexican project, however, is only the starting point for a comprehensive theory of housing production. The Production of Houses describes seven principles which apply to any system of production in any part of the world for housing of any cost in any climate or culture or at any density. In the last part of the book, "The Shift of Paradigm," Alexander describes, in detail, the devastating nature of the revolution in world view which is contained in his proposal for housing construction, and its overall implications for deep-seated cultural change. --Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Center for Environmental Structure series ; v. 4
- Uniform Title
- Center for Environmental Structure series ; v. 4.
- Subject
- Alexander, Christopher 1936-2022
- House construction
- House construction
- Architektur
- Selbsthilfe
- Wohnungsbau
- Architekturtheorie
- housing
- construction industry
- case study
- project design
- architect
- economic evaluation
- human capital
- industrial production
- Habitação popular
- Sistemas e processos construtivos
- Architecture, Domestic > Mexico
- logement
- bâtiment et travaux publics
- étude de cas
- élaboration de projet
- architecte
- évaluation économique
- capital humain
- production industrielle
- vivienda
- industria de la construcción
- estudio de casos
- elaboración de proyectos
- arquitecto
- evaluación económica
- capital humano
- producción industrial
- Mexiko
- Mexico
- developing countries
- pays en développement
- países en desarrollo
- Genre/Form
- illustration.
- photograph.
- research paper.
- étude de recherche.
- photographie.
- estudio de investigación.
- fotografía.
- ilustración.
- Contents
- Introduction -- I . The system of production -- II . The Mexicali project. The architect builder ; The builder's yard ; The collective design of common land ; The layout of individual houses ; Step by step construction ; Cost control ; The human rhythm of the process -- III . Large scale production -- IV . The shift of paradigm -- Postscript on color.
- ISBN
- 0195032233
- 9780195032239
- LCCN
- 82014097
- OCLC
- ocm08668864
- 8668864
- SCSB-47054
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library