Go Back14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”
07/06/2014 to 23/11/2014The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms to be exibited as key participants in the exhibition; they had selected the “PREVI Experimental Housing Project, Lima, Peru, 1969” for potential inclusion, and requested input from C.E.S. regarding the most representative projects it had built abroad. C.E.S. chose to participate in the “Office US” exhibit by providing material for two projects, the one mentioned above and the Eishin Campus in Saitama prefecture, outside Tokyo, Japan.
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14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition "Office US": C.E.S. response to the curators' request to contribute design materials for the PREVI international competition in Peru
2 2) Informative text regarding CES, the competition and the awards
13/02/2014
Information submitted to the curators of the exhibition.
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14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition "Office US": C.E.S. response to the curators' request to contribute design materials for the Eishin campus project in Japan
4 4) 3rd attachment with the headings of the seven sections proposed for the organization of the material sent
13/02/2014
Information submitted to the curators of the exhibition.
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Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations
1969 to
1970
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 ...
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Eishin Campus - High School and College Complex
1982 to
1987
The project was envisioned to be a new combined High School and College Complex for the Eishin Gakuen Foundation, in Saitama prefecture, outside Tokyo, and was designed as such. The campus was to be the working environment of a population ...
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Eishin Campus - High School
1982 to
1995
The High School is the part of the Eishin Campus that was constructed, with a total construction area of 12,000 square meters. It is a complex of thirty-five buildings, with pedestrian colonnaded streets, gates and gardens, and a lake with ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings
3 3) Diagram of one cell with its internal pedestrian street system, parking lots at the edges, and the outdoor room
01/01/1969
Three site plan drawings prepared for the design PREVI competition; the general site plan is supported by larger scale plans highlighting details on proposed house plans, road system, parking lots, and outdoor rooms. They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture ...
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings
9 9) Peru project pattern - Family Room Alcoves
01/01/1969
Sketches drawn to illustrate nine of the sitxy-seven patterns proposed for the design of the project. They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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The Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of drawings
2 2) First and second floor plans of both the large house and the small house
01/01/1969
Two photographs depicting floor plans of the two-storey generic house, as well as of a large and a small house. They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.