Toward new tracts for America : the house and its serial deployment
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Author(s)
Slate, Björn Robert
Advisor(s)
Roy Strickland.
Alternative Title
House and its serial deployment
Date Issued
1994
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis is a proposition for suburban tract housing in the United States. A brief critical history of the production of suburban housing and some precedents for architecturally motivated responses to its shortcomings provide the basis from which a set of design principles is established . These principles are then applied to the (re)design of a block and a half of Levittown, NY and a prototypical pair of houses which comprise it. Working within the immutable system of land subdivision and its resultant seriality of minimal houses, the goal is to create a condition that supports habitability and flexibility of spatial, constructional and programmatic systems at all levels, from house to neighborhood .
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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