DESIGN  AND TECHNOLOGY IN A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD

PETER LAND

The Experimental

Housing Project

(PREVI), Lima

— SCOPE OF THE BOOK —

ideas and environmental character of the PREVI neighborhood

This book is intended to describe the ideas and environmental character of the PREVI neighborhood with its houses and gardens, and the lifestyle it offers. The neighborhood was conceived to develop and demonstrate economic houses and an idea for a way of urban living, an environment that has human scale with appropriate privacy and walk-ability with minimum noise and pollution from vehicles.

 

One objective of the project was to bring together both design and technology creatively. The building methods are therefore described in some detail which will also be of assistance to others contemplating similar work, but not in complete detail so as to obscure the main purpose of the book. Though building technology plays an important role, the project is not only about building systems.

 

 

A considerable amount of organizational, coordination and planning work was needed to carry out this large and complexinternational project through to finished construction. This experience is summarized in the relevant sections as it will also be of interest for similar projects being contemplated.

 

Though the book is mainly about the neighborhood pilot project, the PREVI project also included two other smaller pilot projects: one in self-help building and the other in urban rehabilitation.

 

A brief description of the self-help pilot project is included at the end of the book.

— CONTENTS —

PAGES 9 - 534

Acknowledgments

 

PREVI, comments in retrospect, Peter Land

 

Learning from PREVI, Charles Correa

 

Preface, Kenneth Frampton

 

PREVI, a time-defying idea, Alberto Miani

 

PREVI 50 years later. The contribution of Peter Land

 

The Experimental Housing Project

  • Introduction
  • Appropriate urban form
  • The PREVI international competition
  • Urban design
  • Descriptions of the houses
  • Workshop

 

International designs. Competition projects, built projects. Houses, clusters, technologies

  • Christopher Alexander (Center for Environmental Structure), USA
  • Atelier 5, Switzerland
  • George Candilis, Alexis Josic, Shadrach Woods, France
  • Charles Correa, India
  • Aldo Van Eyck, Holland
  • Oskar Hansen, Svein Hartley, Poland
  • José Luis Íñiguez de Ozoño, Antonio Vázquez de Castro, Spain
  • Kiyonari Kikutaki, Noriaki Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki, Japan
  • Toivo Korhonen, Finland
  • Herbert Ohl, Germany
  • Germán Samper, Rafael Esguerra, Álvaro Sáenz, Rafael Urdaneta, Colombia
  • James Stirling, United Kingdom
  • Knud Svenssons, Denmark

 

 

Peru designs. Competition projects, built projects. Houses, clusters, technologies

  • Miguel Alvariño
  • Fernando Chaparro, Víctor Ramírez, Víctor Smirnoff,
    Víctor Wyszkowski
  • Frederick Cooper, José García Bryce, Antonio Graña,
    Eugenio Nicolini
  • Jacques Crousse, Federico Páez, Ricardo Pérez León
  • Juan Gunther, Ricardo Seminario
  • Elsa Massari, Manuel Llanos
  • Luis Miró Quesada, Oswaldo Núñez, Carlos Williams
  • Carlos Morales Machiavello, Alfredo Montagne
  • Eduardo Orrego, Ricardo González
  • Ernesto Paredes
  • Juan Reiser
  • Ricardo Vella-Zardin, José Bentin, Ricardo Quiñones,
    Luis Takahashi
  • Luis Vier, Consuelo Zanelli de Vier

 

Pilot project in self‐help building

  • Principles and economies
  • Casma
  • Catac

 

Urban form research

 

Annex: PREVI and Universidad de los Andes

  • PREVI still valid. Principles for teaching housing architecture
    Marcela Ángel, Stefano Anzellini, Clemencia Escallón
  • Eight lessons and two conclusions on urban proposals submitted to the contest PREVI
    Camilo Salazar Ferro
  • PREVI: towards the reinvention of social housing construction
    Hernando Vargas Caicedo

 

About the contributors

— PREVI —

IMPRESSIONS

—THE AUTHOR—

PETER LAND

Photography: Peter Maxwell Land

Was born in the UK and educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and the Royal Academy School in London, and holds an A.A. Diploma, Master’s Degrees in Urban Planning from Yale University and Architecture from the Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked as a practicing architect in architectural offices in the UK and the USA . He has taught at Harvard University and in a number of other leading institutions in the field.

 

He is presently a Professor in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is engaged in teaching and research in housing, urban planning and structures for electrical energy generation. He was author and director of the United Nations Experimental Housing Project (PREVI) in Lima,

Peru, beginning in 1968 until its completion in 1973. Before PREVI, he was appointed by Yale University to organize and direct the two-year, inter-American graduate program in urban and regional planning at the National University of Engineering in Lima.

—PURCHASE—

THE BOOK CAN BE PURCHASED ON AMAZON OR THROUGH PAY PAL

Price $60.00 (plus postage $3.99)

THE EXPERIMENTAL HOUSING PROJECT (PREVI),

LIMA. DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD

 

—LINKS—

Latin American Incrementalism: From PREVI to the Present

http://archleague.org/2015/04/latin-american-incrementalism-from-previ-to-the-present/

 

A symposium exploring the contributions of Latin American progressive housing strategies and participatory design to architecture and urban development.

 

 

PhD in Architecture: Peter Land discusses his new book

http://vimeo.com/154601543

 

The PhD in Architecture program presented a discussion with Peter Land about his new book, dealing with his work on The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI). Michelangelo Sabatino, Director of the PhD Program, moderated the discussion on Thu., February 4th, 2016 @7:30pm in S.R. Crown Hall, Room UC2.

 

 

Professor Peter Land: A Living Legend

http://syriansfuture.com/2015/02/22/professor-peter-land-a-living-legend/

 

My studio professor during the 2014-15 academic year at IIT is Professor Peter Land. For those who might wonder who is Peter Land, he is – without a doubt – one of the most famous and brightest architects of our time.

 

The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI) - Exerpt.pdf

Peter Land - Current Activities at IIT.pdf

peterlandarchitect.com

 

PROF. PETER LAND

Architect

PETER LAND

The Experimental

Housing Project

(PREVI), Lima

This book is intended to describe the ideas and environmental character of the PREVI neighborhood with its houses and gardens, and the lifestyle it offers. The neighborhood was conceived to develop and demonstrate economic houses and an idea for a way of urban living, an environment that has human scale with appropriate privacy and walk-ability with minimum noise and pollution from vehicles.

 

One objective of the project was to bring together both design and technology creatively. The building methods are therefore described in some detail which will also be of assistance to others contemplating similar work, but not in complete detail so as to obscure the main purpose of the book. Though building technology plays an important role, the project is not only about building systems.

 

A considerable amount of organizational, coordination and planning work was needed to carry out this large and complexinternational project through to finished construction. This experience is summarized in the relevant sections as it will also be of interest for similar projects being contemplated.

 

Though the book is mainly about the neighborhood pilot project, the PREVI project also included two other smaller pilot projects: one in self-help building and the other in urban rehabilitation.

 

A brief description of the self-help pilot project is included at the end of the book.

Acknowledgments

 

PREVI, comments in retrospect, Peter Land

 

Learning from PREVI, Charles Correa

 

Preface, Kenneth Frampton

 

PREVI, a time-defying idea, Alberto Miani

 

PREVI 50 years later. The contribution of Peter Land

 

The Experimental Housing Project

  • Introduction
  • Appropriate urban form
  • The PREVI international competition
  • Urban design
  • Descriptions of the houses
  • Workshop

 

International designs. Competition projects, built projects. Houses, clusters, technologies

  • Christopher Alexander (Center for Environmental Structure), USA
  • Atelier 5, Switzerland
  • George Candilis, Alexis Josic, Shadrach Woods, France
  • Charles Correa, India
  • Aldo Van Eyck, Holland
  • Oskar Hansen, Svein Hartley, Poland
  • José Luis Íñiguez de Ozoño, Antonio Vázquez de Castro, Spain
  • Kiyonari Kikutaki, Noriaki Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki, Japan
  • Toivo Korhonen, Finland
  • Herbert Ohl, Germany
  • Germán Samper, Rafael Esguerra, Álvaro Sáenz, Rafael Urdaneta, Colombia
  • James Stirling, United Kingdom
  • Knud Svenssons, Denmark

 

Peru designs. Competition projects, built projects. Houses, clusters, technologies

  • Miguel Alvariño
  • Fernando Chaparro, Víctor Ramírez, Víctor Smirnoff,
    Víctor Wyszkowski
  • Frederick Cooper, José García Bryce, Antonio Graña,
    Eugenio Nicolini
  • Jacques Crousse, Federico Páez, Ricardo Pérez León
  • Juan Gunther, Ricardo Seminario
  • Elsa Massari, Manuel Llanos
  • Luis Miró Quesada, Oswaldo Núñez, Carlos Williams
  • Carlos Morales Machiavello, Alfredo Montagne
  • Eduardo Orrego, Ricardo González
  • Ernesto Paredes
  • Juan Reiser
  • Ricardo Vella-Zardin, José Bentin, Ricardo Quiñones,
    Luis Takahashi
  • Luis Vier, Consuelo Zanelli de Vier

 

Pilot project in self‐help building

  • Principles and economies
  • Casma
  • Catac

 

Urban form research

 

Annex: PREVI and Universidad de los Andes

  • PREVI still valid. Principles for teaching housing architecture
    Marcela Ángel, Stefano Anzellini, Clemencia Escallón
  • Eight lessons and two conclusions on urban proposals submitted to the contest PREVI
    Camilo Salazar Ferro
  • PREVI: towards the reinvention of social housing construction
    Hernando Vargas Caicedo

 

About the contributors

 

 

Was born in the UK and educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and the Royal Academy School in London, and holds an A.A. Diploma, Master’s Degrees in Urban Planning from Yale University and Architecture from the Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked as a practicing architect in architectural offices in the UK and the USA . He has taught at Harvard University and in a number of other leading institutions in the field.

 

He is presently a Professor in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is engaged in teaching and research in housing, urban planning and structures for electrical energy generation. He was author and director of the United Nations Experimental Housing Project (PREVI) in Lima,

Peru, beginning in 1968 until its completion in 1973. Before PREVI, he was appointed by Yale University to organize and direct the two-year, inter-American graduate program in urban and regional planning at the National University of Engineering in Lima.

Price $60.00 (plus postage $3.99)

THE EXPERIMENTAL HOUSING PROJECT (PREVI),

LIMA. DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD

 

Latin American Incrementalism: From PREVI to the Present

http://archleague.org/2015/04/latin-american-incrementalism-from-previ-to-the-present/

 

A symposium exploring the contributions of Latin American progressive housing strategies and participatory design to architecture and urban development.

 

 

PhD in Architecture: Peter Land discusses his new book

http.//vimeo.com/154601543

 

The PhD in Architecture program presented a discussion with Peter Land about his new book, dealing with his work on The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI). Michelangelo Sabatino, Director of the PhD Program, moderated the discussion on Thu., February 4th, 2016 @7:30pm in S.R. Crown Hall, Room UC2.

 

 

Professor Peter Land: A Living Legend

http://syriansfuture.com/2015/02/22/professor-peter-land-a-living-legend/

 

My studio professor during the 2014-15 academic year at IIT is Professor Peter Land. For those who might wonder who is Peter Land, he is – without a doubt – one of the most famous and brightest architects of our time.

 

The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI) - Exerpt.pdf

Peter Land - Current Activities at IIT.pdf

PETER LAND

The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI), Lima

DESIGN  AND TECHNOLOGY IN A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD

Photography: Peter Maxwell Land

Latin American Incrementalism: From PREVI to the Present

http://archleague.org/2015/04/latin-american-incrementalism-from-previ-to-the-present/

 

A symposium exploring the contributions of Latin American progressive housing strategies and participatory design to architecture and urban development.

 

 

PhD in Architecture: Peter Land discusses his new book

http.//vimeo.com/154601543

 

The PhD in Architecture program presented a discussion with Peter Land about his new book, dealing with his work on The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI). Michelangelo Sabatino, Director of the PhD Program, moderated the discussion on Thu., February 4th, 2016 @7:30pm in S.R. Crown Hall, Room UC2.

 

 

Professor Peter Land: A Living Legend

http://syriansfuture.com/2015/02/22/professor-peter-land-a-living-legend/

 

My studio professor during the 2014-15 academic year at IIT is Professor Peter Land. For those who might wonder who is Peter Land, he is – without a doubt – one of the most famous and brightest architects of our time.

 

The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI) - Exerpt.pdf

Peter Land - Current Activities at IIT.pdf