This essay is an excerpt of Operative Mapping by Roger Paez, published by Actar Publishers and Elisava -- https://actar.com/product/operative-mapping/
The main goal of this project was not to build a villa but a case study house. What is a case study house? R. Neutra, who designed a case study house in Los Angeles in the 1940s, said:
You’re all building with stone, when we should be building with prefabricated modules that can be easily manufactured and assembled in a week.
It was a revolution, cutting costs and providing a path to the middle class. That was R. Neutra’s approach. (There are roughly 200 case study houses in the Los Angeles area.)
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