Toward new tracts for America : the house and its serial deployment

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 .

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1994

Author dc:creator

• Slate, Björn Robert

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Roy Strickland.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70298

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/70298