The Production of Houses: Book draft

01/01/1984

Book Draft, Complete Manuscript

A complete 367-page manuscript organized in two parts and ten chapters with Preface and Introduction; includes I. The Process: 1) The Architect Builder; 2) The Builder’s Yard; 3) The House Cluster; 4) The Individual House; 5) The Process of Construction; 6) Cost Control; 7) The Human Rythm of the Process; and II. Large Scale Production: 8) The Multiplication of Builders’ Yards; 9) The Evolution of Variety; 10) Large Scale Production.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Julio Martinez, Don Corner, Jenny Young, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

The Production of Houses 01/01/1985

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Julio Martinez, Donald Corner

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The fifth volume in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Production of Houses” puts Alexander’s theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment Alexander ...