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Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of people during construction

01/01/1976
Working in Construction

Eighteen photos with householders, C.E.S. staff and apprentices during the construction of the project, working, celebrating events, resting or just posing.

Photograph:

  • 1) Celebrating somebody's birthday during the project construction
  • 2) Householder Lilia Duran
  • 3) One of the children of the five families
  • 4) Gathering of the inhabitants
  • Low-cost Houses for Mexicali: Photographs of people during construction
  • 6) Chatting in the shade
  • 7) Apprentice sitting in a tiny niche
  • 8) Alexander in a meeting with local authorities
  • 9) Householder Rodriguez at excavation works
  • 10) Posing during construction
  • 11) Project construction crew
  • 12) Resting and chatting with Alexander in the shade of the porch
  • 13) Break time
  • 14) Resting on the fountain
  • 16) Resting time
  • 18) Celebrating somebody's birthday during the project construction
Content of
  • Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977
    Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
    Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977
    A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...
References
  • Users Involved in the Construction of their Project
    The benefits of the involvement of the users in the actual construction of their houses under the guidance and management of the architect-builder or the contractor, besides the obvious economical, are manifested in the personal qualities and feeling of these ...
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