the production of houses,christopher alexander

"…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. Numerous diagrams and tables as well as a variety of anecdotes make the day-to-day 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.…"

Contents:

INTRODUCTION THE SYSTEM OF PRODUCTION THE MEXICALI PROJECT The Architect Builder The Builder's Yard The Collective Design of Common Land The Layout of Indivisual Houses Step by Step Construction Cost Control The Human Rhythm of the Process LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION THE SHIFT OF PARADIGM POSTSCRIPT ON COLOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

B6ハードカバー。カバー。381頁。図版一部カラー。ページ焼け有。

同シリーズvol.4,アレグザンダーのメキシコでの住宅建築体験とその検証