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8 Christopher Alexander et al. – Mexicali
Housing, Mexico, 1976. (Neil Jackson)
The project did in fact go ahead, amidst
much acrimony and confusion, and the buildings achieved a level of
craftsmanship not always attained in Alexander’s work. His smaller scale
projects by contrast often rely on self-build construction, such as the
community housing project built for a small town in Mexico. This project was
described in the book called The Production of Houses(1985), which formed a
real “construction manual” as a counterpart to the earlier design guide.
Throughout all this work the intention was to hand over the “means of
production”, such that the worker might be relieved of the alienation Marx had
described. As yet there has been no larger scale “revolution” due to the lack
of a mass response from the wealthy populations of the Western world.
This
sort of project has also been carried out on various scales in Europe, such as
in the work of the German architect, Frei, Otton, and the
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