PREVI Architecture, politics, utopia

01/06/2013

Paper, University Publication

Authors:

Julia Lenz, Alberto Geuna

Publisher:

TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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References

Projects

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations 1969 to 1970

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Master Planning, Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Proposal submitted in 1970

Client:

Mr. Peter Land, United Nations coordinator of PREVI project

C.E.S. staff:

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

Sponsor:

United Nations

Project cost:

$1,800-$3,800 / house

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Generic rules for choice process Preliminary Design Innovative construction methods

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 ...
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.