Etna Street cottage: The students built a small house, while developing an experimental building system in which the construction patterns would be incorporated and tested

Spring 1974

The assignment of the class was to test the first construction patterns, before they were incorporated in “A Pattern Language” published in 1977. It was a building experiment, at the end of which the Etna Street cottage was built, experimenting with new construction techniques, like box columns made with green 1x planks, lightweight concrete, vaulted roofs with weaved lattice as formwork.

University Program:
Master of Architecture
Course type:
Graduate Design Studio
Course number:
Arch. 209
Instructors:
Christopher Alexander
Enrolled students:
Donald Corner, Walter V. Wendler, Antonio Risianti, Langston Trigg, Donna Lucky, Gabriella ..., Bill …, Joan …
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