2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.046
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publication on self-help process and housing and documentation on urban agriculture, such as policies and regulations, implementation and case study.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on self-help and urban agriculture
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AP149.S2.SS3.046
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publication on self-help process and housing and documentation on urban agriculture, such as policies and regulations, implementation and case study.
textual records
1970s-1990s
books
AP149.S1.1984.PR01.005
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Publication "'Aranya': Low Cost Housing at Indore: Post Occupancy Evaluation" by the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation on post-occupancy evaluation of the Aranya township development site, near Indore, for the Aranya Project, before the Minimum Cost Housing Group project.
ca. 1984
Documentation on the Aranya project site
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AP149.S1.1984.PR01.005
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Publication "'Aranya': Low Cost Housing at Indore: Post Occupancy Evaluation" by the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation on post-occupancy evaluation of the Aranya township development site, near Indore, for the Aranya Project, before the Minimum Cost Housing Group project.
books
ca. 1984
books
AP149.S1.1978.PR01.002
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about the domestic water saving devices.
July 1978
Water Conservation and the Mist Experience
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AP149.S1.1978.PR01.002
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about the domestic water saving devices.
books
July 1978
books
ARCH253671
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about the domestic water saving devices.
July 1978
Water Conservation and the Mist Experience
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ARCH253671
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about the domestic water saving devices.
books
July 1978
books
Rooftop Wastelands
AP149.S1.1976.PR01.006
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens.
October 1976
Rooftop Wastelands
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AP149.S1.1976.PR01.006
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens.
books
October 1976
books
Rooftop Wastelands
ARCH253669
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens.
October 1976
Rooftop Wastelands
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ARCH253669
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens.
books
October 1976
photographs
AP149.S1.1972.PR03.010
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Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" including a photograph of hands holding two bottles of reused materials and a view of Middle East housing built from recycled doors, windows and other urban scrap.
ca. 1975
Centre Publication / Photographs
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AP149.S1.1972.PR03.010
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Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" including a photograph of hands holding two bottles of reused materials and a view of Middle East housing built from recycled doors, windows and other urban scrap.
photographs
ca. 1975
photographs
AP149.S4.SS2.002
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Group consists of sets of slides of visual material for lectures on research project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. The group includes: - a set on open spaces in urban environment, related to the fifth Human Settlement Training Packages by Mininum Cost Housing Group - a set of slides on sanitation and sanitation systems previsously stored in a folder entitled "Sanitation" - a set of slides on doors in India and Mexico previously stored in a folder entitled "Doors", - a set entitled ''People'' - and a set on technology for housing developement, low cost houses construction, including slides on the Minimum Cost Housing Group's housing project, such as Ecol Operation, Maison Lessard project and Saddle Lake project, previously stored in a folder entitled "Technology".
1970s-1990s
Visual material for lectures on subject researchs
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AP149.S4.SS2.002
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Group consists of sets of slides of visual material for lectures on research project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. The group includes: - a set on open spaces in urban environment, related to the fifth Human Settlement Training Packages by Mininum Cost Housing Group - a set of slides on sanitation and sanitation systems previsously stored in a folder entitled "Sanitation" - a set of slides on doors in India and Mexico previously stored in a folder entitled "Doors", - a set entitled ''People'' - and a set on technology for housing developement, low cost houses construction, including slides on the Minimum Cost Housing Group's housing project, such as Ecol Operation, Maison Lessard project and Saddle Lake project, previously stored in a folder entitled "Technology".
photographs
1970s-1990s
Project
AP149.S1.1990.PR01
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This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication project "Comtemporary Architecture in India" in 1990. The material in this project series was produced between 1986 and 1991. The file contains research material, including photographs and slides of architecture in India.
1986-1991
Contemporary Architecture in India
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AP149.S1.1990.PR01
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This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication project "Comtemporary Architecture in India" in 1990. The material in this project series was produced between 1986 and 1991. The file contains research material, including photographs and slides of architecture in India.
Project
1986-1991