House for Al and Katherine Haimson

1985

Woodside, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Alvin and Katherine Haimson

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Contents

Correspondence

Haimson House: Memorandum on the project attempting to shed light on the confusion experienced and focusing on design works accomplished and their relationship to construction, as well as on the communication and relationship with the client; the copy is marked with client's comments. Also there is a draft of the letter 07/03/1985

Design Matters, Memorandum

Sender:

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

Recipient:

Alvin Haimson, Katherine Haimson, Woodside, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Haimson House: Explaining the increase of the cost per sq. ft. as a consequence of changes on design and construction; reminder for the outstanding bills owed to C.E.S. 25/03/1985

Financial, Cost Estimate

Sender:

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

Recipient:

Alvin Haimson, Katherine Haimson, Woodside, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Haimson House: Re: C.E.S. v. Haim son's; with attached documents for No. 685773 court case, entitled "Answer to Request for Production of Documents", "Response of the Center for Environmental Structure to Interrogatories" and "Response of Center for Environmental Structure, Gary Black, and Christopher Alexander to Request for Production of Documents". Includes copies of drawings of three building projects built by The Center for Environmental Structure 05/03/1986

Legal Case

Sender:

Thomas J. Eicher, Attorneys at Law - Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter
Haimson House: Re: C.E.S. v. Haimson's et al.: Updating the clients on current issues; with attachments of two documents of "Notice of Deposition", one for each client, referring to the change of date for the Deposition. Also, notifying that C.E.S.'s request for a trial is affecting their Pre-Trial motions. Memorandum to Set Civil Accion for Trial is enclosed 22/01/1986

Legal Case

Sender:

Kingsford F. Jones, Attorneys at Law - Robertson, Alexander, Luther, Esselstein, Shiells and Wright , Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Alvin Haimson, Katherine Haimson, Woodside, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

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Drawings

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Reports

House for Al and Katherine Haimson: Agreement 05/12/1984

Contractual, Design Services Agreement

Authors:

Mr. & Mrs. Alvin and Katherine Haimson, Woodside, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Signed agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Alvin, Kathrine Haimson and the Center for Environmental Structure for the design of a 1,390 square foot house in three phases: 1. Preliminary design; 2. Detailed working drawings for obtaining final construction bid; 3. ...

Records

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