Article

PREVI / Lima – Low Cost Housing Project (includes the minority report)

01/04/1970

Article

Authors:

Carl Koch, Alfredo Perez, Halldor Gunnlogsson

Published in:

Architectural Design, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 187-189

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd., London, U.K.

References

Published Books

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

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

Publisher:

Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...

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 ...

Articles

Public Events

First prize by minority report for selection of winners for the PREVI competition for low-cost housing in Peru 01/04/1970

Award-Honor, Competition Award-Minority Report

Awarded by:

The Minority Report submitted by the competition jurors of USA/UIA, Peru and Denmark - it was published in the April 1970 issue of Architectural Design Journal, London, U.K.

Three of the competition jurors, Carl Koch (USA/UIA), Alfredo Prez (Peru), Halldor Gunnloegsson (Denmark) expressed their disagreement with the majority selection of the International winners, and focused on the features and qualities of two other submitted international projects, one of ...