The Peru Project – Fourteen Low Cost Houses: Photographs of the buildings

01/01/1971

Exterior View

Five viewsof the 14-house constructed prototype cluster designed by C.E.S.
They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.

Photograph:

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Lima, Peru

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project 1 Items

Peru Project - Fourteen Low Cost Houses 1971 to 1975

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Low Cost Housing, Realized, Invited Competition, Pilot construction project completed in 1975

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Contractor:

Conglomerate of local Peruvian contractors

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$75,000

Project stages:

Construction Drawings

Construction of one group of fourteen (14) houses, part of the first experimental pilot project, built together with the schemes of the other twelve architectural firms which participated in the international PREVI competition.

References

Public Events 1 Items

14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US" 07/06/2014 to 23/11/2014

U.S. Pavillion in Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

La Biennale di Venezia

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 ...