Houses generated patterns de christopher alexander (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 219 pp., with numerous illustrations. Stated second printing, 1970. The book details the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It shows the process of creating the pattern language and the pattern language itself. Moderate shelf and handling wear. Mild soiling to covers and text block; corners and edges of covers and text block lightly bumped/scuffed. Previous owner's name penned in upper corner on title page. Some minor creasing to front cover; some rippling to last bound page. Corner dog-ear creases to a few pages in upper fore corner. Laid in: a photocopy of "Jurors' comments on 4 of the international submissions" from the April 1970 issue of Architectural Digest.…

Softcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Size: 4to 9 3/4 - 12". 219 pp. Binding split in a couple of places. Title page and a couple of others loose. Binding glue is going so other pages likely to come loose unless very carefully read. Spine worn, with split to top of front joint. Edges browned slightly. Covers creased and worn. Profusely illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Architecture; Peru; 1960s; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56239.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 219 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Introduction: In January 1969 the United Nations, working with the Banco de la Vivienda of Peru, asked us and twelve other architects from various countries to submit competition designs for a community of 1500 houses. The houses are to be built at a gross density of 37 houses per hectare on a site of 40 hectares, 8 kilometers north of Lima. The site is bounded by two major arterial highways, and crossed by a third; these highways are fixed by the Lima transportation plan. The financial arrangements require that each house be contractor built, on its own land, at a cost ranging from 78,000 to 164,000 soles ($1800 $3800), and that they be sold to low income white collar workers (empleados) earning between 2,800 and 5,800 soles ($65 $135) per month. We were asked to present our designs in a way that would help the evolution of Peruvian community and house design in the future. We have therefore chosen to present our work in two parts: In part one we present our designs. This includes a site plan, drawings and construction details for individual houses,and a choice process which allows the final site and house plans to be formed, in detail, by the idiosyncratic needs of the individual families who buy the houses. In part two we present sixty-seven general design principles which we call patterns. These patterns describe, in an abstract sense, the lessons which a Peruvian architect might learn from our designs, and could re-use, over and over again, in his own designs. We have combined these sixty-seven patterns in one particular way, to form the designs presented in part one. However, in the hands of different Peruvian architects, or in the hands of different individuals designing and building their own houses, these patterns can generate an almost infinitely rich variety. In this sense, these patterns may begin to define a new indigenous architecture for Peru. …