New Town for Hoechst Parkstadt-Unterliederbach: New kind of wall construction

The Frankfurt Parkstadt Unterliederbach project included the development of a new urban neighborhood in a landscaped setting, for Hoechst Pharmaceutical in Frankfurt West, close to the international airport and the river Main, a housing project both for Hoechst employees and ...

Photographs of two early mockus of a new kind of wall construction with a brick-masonry mixture for the four-story apartments.

Photographs of two different experimental wall bays, built with standard concrete blocks with special treatment for the base and top.

Photograph of the top section of a wall in which special cast blocks were used together with normal blocks, which introduce reveals and ornaments.

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...