The Production of Houses (Center for Environmental Structure)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195032233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 381 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Dennis said Christopher Alexander's principles put into practice. If, after reading Christopher Alexander's earlier books, you were wondering if he ever actually built a house in the real world, here's your answer. Yes, he did. Yes, the people owning the houses love the results. Yes, they feel the special connection with their homes that is the hallmark of Alexander's ideas. No, the powers that be, who agreed to temporarily suspend building codes for his project, were not happy with the results. Why? Because they look funny, and because he built five homes instead of five hundred. Well, if they'd re. Livro excelente e entregue na data certa Celena Livro excelente e superou as minhas expectativas. As ilustrações são ótimas. Leitura indispensável para arquitetos e engenheiros que se interessam em produçã de moradia em larga escala sem menosprezar a participação da comunidade e da sabedoria popularFoi entregue na data certa.. indiajane said Five Stars. I bought this for my brother who is a contractor and he found it very interesting
Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and
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.. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment--defined a radical and fundamently 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 Productio
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. From the Back Cover The book 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