Main entry:

Shirt-Sleeve Session in Responsive Housebuilding Technologies (1972 : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title & Author:

The responsive house : selected papers and discussions from the Shirt-Sleeve Session in Responsive Housebuilding Technologies held at the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 3-5, 1972 / edited by Edward Allen.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1974]

Description:

xix, 307 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Work notes on the need for a new building technology / Sean Wellesley-Miller -- An attempt to derive the nature of a human building system from first principles / Christopher Alexander -- Specifications for an organic and human building system / Christopher Alexander and Max Jacobson -- Essay / Edward Allen -- An address to the Shirt-sleeve session on responsive housebuilding technologies / Steve Baer -- Self-help vs helplessness / David Conover -- Obstacles to owner-building: a quest for responsive housebuilding technologies / Ian Donald Terner -- Self-help housing construction: the state of the art in terms of technical innovation / Donald Watson -- Builders of Bolinas / Lloyd Kahn -- Outlaw building / Sim Van der Ryn -- User-centered computer design systems: the evolutionary designer / Jerry Finrow -- Homegrown: an evolutionary housing game / Daria Bolton Fisk -- User-responsive, adaptable, industrialized housing / Neil Pinney -- The Warehouse Cooperative School / Jan Wampler -- Flexible apartment units / Bertil Olsson and Rolf Nilsson, translated by Robert Allen Karasek -- Relationships between man and dwelling / N.J. Habraken -- System-pre-design / Winslow Elliott Wedin -- Pneumatic structures, cybernetics and ecology / Blair Hamilton -- Strategies for evolutionary environments / Wolf Hilbertz -- Evolution of future environments / Robert E. Lucas -- Structuring an adaptive environmental system / Joseph Mathis -- The subtraction method of producing structures with robots / Forrest Higgs -- The three little pigs revisited / Avery R. Johnson -- Prospects for a magic building machine / Edward Allen -- Concerning responsive architecture / Nicholas Negroponte.

ISBN:

0262010402
9780262010405

Subject:

House construction Congresses.
Dwellings Congresses.
Architecture, Domestic Congresses.
Habitations Construction Congrès.
Habitations Congrès.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings.
House construction.
Bouwkunde.
Woningbouw.
Participatie.
Bewoners.

Form/genre:

Congress
Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Allen, Edward, 1938- editor.
Allen, Edward, 1938-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92025
Call No.: PO11824; ID:85-B1355
Status: Available