Correspondence

LaMar-Price House: Handwritten note to Christopher Alexander referring to sketches and asking his feedback on house layout adjustments made on site, regarding details of house volumes position; includes two drawings

19/08/1994

Design Matters, Layout Process on Site

Sender:

Randall Schmidt, Center for Environmental Structure, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

House and Spiritual Retrat for Mary LaMar 1993 to 1995

Lake Tomahawk, WI, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mrs. Mary LaMar and Mr. Michael Price

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, James Maguire

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

References

Scientific Research

The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

Drawings

LaMar-Price House: Preliminary Design Drawings - Building layout on site 19/08/1994

Architectural Design, Project, Preliminary Design, Layout Process

Designers:

Randall Schmidt, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:20

RS’s Version 19-Aug-1994 is noted on the drawing. Randall Schmidt’s revised proposal of the building layout staked on site, overlaid with dotted thick line above the initial layout.

Photographs