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

01/04/1970

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Published Books 1 Items

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

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 1 Items

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

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 ...

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Public Events 1 Items

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

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 ...