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Village School in Bavra: Elementary School, Bavra, India
01/01/196215-page document describing in its first four pages how the school project in Bavra came about and how it was realized. The following 11 pages depict photographic instances of the construction process and the human interaction between participants. Referenced as “C.E.S. Project 1”, wherein Alexander considers this school project as the “intellectual and practical precursors of the work from which the pattern languages formed”.
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