Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin and Shlomo Angel while working for the PREVI international competition

01/01/1969

Working Abroad

Three contact sheets and three corresponding rolls of film, along with one partial film, with images portraying Christopher Alexander with his CES colleagues in various combinations, while being in Lima working on the Peru project.

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 35mm, B&W

Contents

Photographs

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin and Shlomo Angel while working for the PREVI international competition 01/01/1969

Working Abroad

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 35mm, B&W
Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin and Shlomo Angel while working for the PREVI international competition 01/01/1969

Working Abroad

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 35mm, B&W
Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin and Shlomo Angel while working for the PREVI international competition 01/01/1969

Working Abroad

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 35mm, B&W
Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin and Shlomo Angel while working for the PREVI international competition 01/01/1969

Working Abroad

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", 35mm, B&W

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References

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 ...