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
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.045
Description:
Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Predominantly includes photocopies of publication on disaster preparedness and prevention, and responses and resources after a natural disaster. Also includes documentation on self-help.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on post-disaster and self-help
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AP149.S2.SS3.045
Description:
Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Predominantly includes photocopies of publication on disaster preparedness and prevention, and responses and resources after a natural disaster. Also includes documentation on self-help.
textual records
1970s-1990s
photographs
ARCH273335
Description:
Photograph (and the enveloppe that was containing it) of a spray of water on a white ground used for the cover of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices.
1978 or before
The spray pattern of atomized water
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ARCH273335
Description:
Photograph (and the enveloppe that was containing it) of a spray of water on a white ground used for the cover of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices.
photographs
1978 or before
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.048
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 sanitation or water supply devices. Group separated in 4 folders.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on sanitation and water access
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AP149.S2.SS3.048
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 sanitation or water supply devices. Group separated in 4 folders.
textual records
1970s-1990s
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.030
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, energy conservation material, sanitation or water supply devices.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on energies sources and sanitation and water access
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AP149.S2.SS3.030
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, energy conservation material, sanitation or water supply devices.
textual records
1970s-1990s
photographs
ATOMIZATION MIST
ARCH273336
Description:
Group consists of photographs for the Mininum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices, including photographs of the devices. The group also includes the enveloppe that was containing the photographs.
1978 or before
ATOMIZATION MIST
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ARCH273336
Description:
Group consists of photographs for the Mininum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices, including photographs of the devices. The group also includes the enveloppe that was containing the photographs.
photographs
1978 or before
books
Quantity:
2 book(s)
ARCH252789
Description:
Group consists of two copies of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices.
July 1978
Water Conservation and the Mist Experience
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ARCH252789
Description:
Group consists of two copies of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about domestic water saving devices.
books
Quantity:
2 book(s)
July 1978
textual records
ARCH273150
Description:
Group consists of a dummy and the final thesis "Energy Conservation in Greenhouses through the Use of Retractable Insulation" by Witold Rybczynski and Vikram Bhatt for the Minimum Cost Housing Group.
July 1980
Energy Conservation in Greenhouses through the Use of Retractable Insulation
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ARCH273150
Description:
Group consists of a dummy and the final thesis "Energy Conservation in Greenhouses through the Use of Retractable Insulation" by Witold Rybczynski and Vikram Bhatt for the Minimum Cost Housing Group.
textual records
July 1980
photographs
BOTTLE
AP149.S1.1972.PR03.012
Description:
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components made from secondary use, including photographs of bottles made from recycled materials and photographs of the fabrication process for the bottles.
1975 or before
BOTTLE
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AP149.S1.1972.PR03.012
Description:
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Use it Again, Sam" about building components made from secondary use, including photographs of bottles made from recycled materials and photographs of the fabrication process for the bottles.
photographs
1975 or before
Project
Study of human settlements
AP149.S1.1986.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's human settlement study in developping countries, mainly in India and in China, in the 1970s and 1980s. The project led to three publications series "How the Other Half Builds" (Volume 1: Space (1984), Volume 2: Plots (1986) and Volume 3: The Self-Selection Process (1990)). A series of audio-visual training packages entitled "Human Settlements Training Packages" was also produced in relation with this study. They produced a total of six series comprised of slides and audio cassettes that provide new ideas for planning low-income housing and low-cost technologies. The production of these training packages is based on years of field work in China and in India, and research in collobaration with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India. The material in this project series was produced between 1985 and 1993. The files contain a large collection of slides of the training packages, guides for the slide show presentations, and various textual records related to the production of the training packages. The project series also comprises correspondence with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation and sketchbooks with study drawings of housing mainly in India, possibly by Vikram Bhatt. The file also includes textual records related to the production of the publications series "How the Other Half Builds", as well as proofs for the publications and the final version of the books.
1985-1993
Study of human settlements
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AP149.S1.1986.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's human settlement study in developping countries, mainly in India and in China, in the 1970s and 1980s. The project led to three publications series "How the Other Half Builds" (Volume 1: Space (1984), Volume 2: Plots (1986) and Volume 3: The Self-Selection Process (1990)). A series of audio-visual training packages entitled "Human Settlements Training Packages" was also produced in relation with this study. They produced a total of six series comprised of slides and audio cassettes that provide new ideas for planning low-income housing and low-cost technologies. The production of these training packages is based on years of field work in China and in India, and research in collobaration with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India. The material in this project series was produced between 1985 and 1993. The files contain a large collection of slides of the training packages, guides for the slide show presentations, and various textual records related to the production of the training packages. The project series also comprises correspondence with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation and sketchbooks with study drawings of housing mainly in India, possibly by Vikram Bhatt. The file also includes textual records related to the production of the publications series "How the Other Half Builds", as well as proofs for the publications and the final version of the books.
Project
1985-1993