The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings

Master plan for a community of 1500 houses, submitted as one out of twelve other competition entries for the United Nations sponsored international housing competition PREVI (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda). The Center for Environmental Structure was chosen as the ...

Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms ...

Site plan drawing of the proposed site organization for the community of 1500 houses.

Two plans of housing cells, depicting schemes of community cell organization; the first one depicts the organization of one cell, while the second depicts a combination of different cells.

Sequence of eighteen images, depicting Step-5 to Step-20 of the “Choice Process” followed by each family for designing their individual house. Each step provides a small number of variations of the individual houses depending on the basic design factors, as ...