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Agate Street Married Student Housing
1990 to 1993Student Housing including four buildings with twenty apartments for married student families; first phase of construction of the Amazon Plan.
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Agate Street Dormitory for the University of Oregon: Summary of notes taken at a meeting for the student family housing project on 6-Dec-1990
07/12/1990
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Agate Street Dormitory for the University of Oregon: Joint Venture submission for the Student Housing Project, required for federal projects
12/12/1990
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Agate Street Dormitory Project: Standard Federal Forms 254 and 255, submitted by companies interested to undertake a specific federal project in Joint Venture
12/12/1990
Architect – Engineer and Related Service Questionnaire filled out with extensive notes, both typed and handwritten; four different editions of the two forms.
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Agate Street Dormitory Project: Notes
11/08/1991
Two pages of notes on the Agate Street Dormitory Project with notations about dry wall, finishing stains, and pricing.
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Agate Street Dormitory for the University of Oregon: Photographs of drawings
4 4) The positive outdoor spaces shown in black
01/01/1991
Four drawings showing the complex pattern of positive outdoor spaces which emerged from the process of forming building volumes in parallel with the shaping of open spaces.
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Agate Street Dormitory for the University of Oregon: Photographs of project model
01/01/1991
Early in-progress cardboard model of the project at a scale of 1:200, which completes the space and volume-forming phase of the work.
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Agate Street Dormitory for the University of Oregon: Photographs of drawings
2 2) Elevations from surrounding streets
01/01/1991
Two photographs with the elevations of the four buildings.
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References
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The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes
Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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Christopher Alexander's Eugene, Oregon Student Housing: Request for official commissioning of Mark Darley to photograph the student housing project in Eugene, Oregon; page of work sample is attached.
19/04/1994
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Eugene: Mark Darley forwards note updating about the proposed fees for shooting in Eugene by Paul Finch of Building Design who responded to Mark's estimated expenses and fee for shooting; with the Building Design and the Mark Darley's communication attachments. More information about upcoming shootings and cooperation with other magazines is mentioned.
13/05/1994
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Cover page with request to Alexander for feedback regarding the attached request to A&U Publishing Co. of Tokyo for possible cooperation with "Building Design" sharing the costs of shooting Eugene, Oregon student housing. The record produced could then be used by both magazines.
19/05/1994
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