textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.029
Description:
Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publications, reports, promotional and commercial material, such as brochures, leaflets, on energy systems or energy conservation material.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on energies sources and energy conservation
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AP149.S2.SS3.029
Description:
Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publications, reports, promotional and commercial material, such as brochures, leaflets, on energy systems or energy conservation material.
textual records
1970s-1990s
textual records
ROOFTOPS
ARCH273333
Description:
Group consists of part of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations.
1976 or before
ROOFTOPS
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ARCH273333
Description:
Group consists of part of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations.
textual records
1976 or before
Sub-series
AP149.S2.SS3
Description:
File related to various documents used as documentation and reference material for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publications and research projects. The material in this file was produced between the late 1940s and 1999. The file contains an important collection of photocopies of book chapters, periodical, published reports, commercial leaflets, photographs and slides on various subjects related to the research field of the Minimum Cost Housing Group, and also a collection of maps of cities planning in India. The published reports in this series include the following: - Assessment of construction materials for use in emergency housing carried out on behalf of OXFAM (An) / A.K. Green - Brazil : sites and services project: staff appraisal report / World Bank - Cocoon / Hollingshead - Evaluation report on the village sanitation scheme of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Maharashtra / Programme Evaluation Organisation, Planning Commission Govt. of India - International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade : end of decade review (as at December 1990) (The) (World Health Organization) - Lucknow urban development project : an approach document / Lucknow Development Authority - Preliminary investigations into the use of atomised sprays for handwashing and showering / T.C. Porter and M.E. Rump (Building Research Establishment Note) - Project completion report: India: Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Project (loan 2329-IN) (World Bank) - Racing alone: a visionary architect's quest for houses made with earth and fire / Nader Khalili (advertisement brochure for a book, including text of introduction; actual book in CCA collection) - Reflexiones sobre el tema de la vivienda (CENAC) - Report on toilet units / J.W. Grainge and J.W. Slupsky - Technology development for a zero-gravity whole body shower / A.A. Rosener [and 5 others] - Urban sector survey: Republic of Zambia (World Bank), v. 1-2 - Workshop on implications of the recommendations of National commission on urbanisation on planning practice and education / Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
late 1940s-1999
Reference and research for publications
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AP149.S2.SS3
Description:
File related to various documents used as documentation and reference material for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publications and research projects. The material in this file was produced between the late 1940s and 1999. The file contains an important collection of photocopies of book chapters, periodical, published reports, commercial leaflets, photographs and slides on various subjects related to the research field of the Minimum Cost Housing Group, and also a collection of maps of cities planning in India. The published reports in this series include the following: - Assessment of construction materials for use in emergency housing carried out on behalf of OXFAM (An) / A.K. Green - Brazil : sites and services project: staff appraisal report / World Bank - Cocoon / Hollingshead - Evaluation report on the village sanitation scheme of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Maharashtra / Programme Evaluation Organisation, Planning Commission Govt. of India - International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade : end of decade review (as at December 1990) (The) (World Health Organization) - Lucknow urban development project : an approach document / Lucknow Development Authority - Preliminary investigations into the use of atomised sprays for handwashing and showering / T.C. Porter and M.E. Rump (Building Research Establishment Note) - Project completion report: India: Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Project (loan 2329-IN) (World Bank) - Racing alone: a visionary architect's quest for houses made with earth and fire / Nader Khalili (advertisement brochure for a book, including text of introduction; actual book in CCA collection) - Reflexiones sobre el tema de la vivienda (CENAC) - Report on toilet units / J.W. Grainge and J.W. Slupsky - Technology development for a zero-gravity whole body shower / A.A. Rosener [and 5 others] - Urban sector survey: Republic of Zambia (World Bank), v. 1-2 - Workshop on implications of the recommendations of National commission on urbanisation on planning practice and education / Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Sub-series
late 1940s-1999
textual records
AP149.S2.SS1.001
Description:
Group consists of the thesis "Patterns of Space and Human Activity in an Unplanned Settlement" by Valdo Pons and Wiltold Rybczynski for the Mininum Cost Housing Group about unplanned human settlement in Tanzania.
1988
Patterns of Space and Human Activity in an Unplanned Settlement
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AP149.S2.SS1.001
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Group consists of the thesis "Patterns of Space and Human Activity in an Unplanned Settlement" by Valdo Pons and Wiltold Rybczynski for the Mininum Cost Housing Group about unplanned human settlement in Tanzania.
textual records
1988
photographs
AP149.S1.1978.PR01.004
Description:
Photograph for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices and the enveloppe that was containing the photograph.
1978 or before
Unidentified man washing his hands with a water atomizer device
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AP149.S1.1978.PR01.004
Description:
Photograph for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices and the enveloppe that was containing the photograph.
photographs
1978 or before
photographs
ARCH273337
Description:
Photograph for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices and the enveloppe that was containing the photograph.
1978 or before
Unidentified man washing his hands with a water atomizer device
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ARCH273337
Description:
Photograph for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices and the enveloppe that was containing the photograph.
photographs
1978 or before
Project
AP149.S1.1972.PR03
Description:
File related to the projects of the Minimum Cost Housing Group about building components made from consumers waste between 1972 and 1975, including the Maison Lessard project, in 1975, and the publication "Use it Again, Sam" based on these projects. The material in this file was produced between 1972 and 1977. The file contains textual records, predominantly dummies for the publications, photographs of the construction of the Maison Lessard and photographs of consumer waste transformed into building components. The file also includes copies of the publication "Use it Again, Sam" and printing plates.
1972-1977
Building components from secondary use
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AP149.S1.1972.PR03
Description:
File related to the projects of the Minimum Cost Housing Group about building components made from consumers waste between 1972 and 1975, including the Maison Lessard project, in 1975, and the publication "Use it Again, Sam" based on these projects. The material in this file was produced between 1972 and 1977. The file contains textual records, predominantly dummies for the publications, photographs of the construction of the Maison Lessard and photographs of consumer waste transformed into building components. The file also includes copies of the publication "Use it Again, Sam" and printing plates.
Project
1972-1977
photographs
ROOFTOPS
ARCH273334
Description:
Group consists of photographs of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations and photographs of people gardening.
1976 or before
ROOFTOPS
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ARCH273334
Description:
Group consists of photographs of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations and photographs of people gardening.
photographs
1976 or before
textual records
ARCH273000
Description:
Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house. The group includes a dummy of the french translation of the book.
1971 or before
The Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense
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ARCH273000
Description:
Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house. The group includes a dummy of the french translation of the book.
textual records
1971 or before
books
AP149.S1.1971.PR01.002
Description:
Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1972
L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens
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AP149.S1.1971.PR01.002
Description:
Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
books
1972