Article

Propositions Pour un Nouveau Type de Logements Collectifs / Propositions for a New Type of Housing

01/05/1974

Book Contribution

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

La Politique des Modeles et son Retentissement sur l' Innovation dans le Logement Social, pp. 132-172

Editor:

Francoise Choay, J. Riguet

Publisher:

RAUC, Paris, France

Language:

French

References

Projects

User Designed Apartment Building 1974 to 1975

St.Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris , France

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

French Ministry of Housing - Francois Choay

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Walter V. Wendler

Project stages:

Preliminary Design Construction Schedule

Design and construction of prototype apartment complex outside Paris. The project was initiated by Francoise Choay, the Minister of Housing in France, in November 1973, when she invited the Center for Environmental Structure to join her analysis of poor quality, ...

Reports

The New Apartment House - Project 46 01/01/1975

Project, Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Walter V. Wendler, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

87-page project report which describes a new form of apartment house, intended for families who own their apartments. The aim of the project was to propose a new kind of apartment which has life and is personal to the people ...