Photograph

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

01/01/1971

Exterior View

Nine photographs of the house cluster, illustrating the house patio with its internal staircase and part of the translucent opening patio roof, as well as the internal streets of the cluster with font door recesses, no ground floor windows and flowers along the street house .

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, Print, Slide

Characteristics:

8"x10", Color

Content of

Project

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.

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