Go BackNeighborhood of Seventy Low-Cost Houses: Photographs of sketches
01/05/1986Eight sketches by Christopher Alexander and Artemis Anninou regarding the site layout and design process, which show a simulation of eight layout consecutive steps to be performed on the actual site, for completing the form of a street with its side streets and localized centers by performing the volumetric shaping of a small group of houses at each step.
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