McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group.

The ECOL operation : ecology + building + common sense / by Alvaro Ortega, Witold Rybczynski, Samir Ayad, Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson.

Montreal : Minimum Cost Housing Studies, School of Architecture, McGill University, [1972]
©1972

100 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Problem is ; no. 2

Part of research done in minimum cost housing during 1972. The main activity described is construction of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house using unusual materials and new construction methods such as interlocking sulphur blocks and sulphur titles, simple use of wood and asbestos sheets in new forms. Although its faults challenge further experimentation the project more than fulfilled expectations. See revised edition for inclusion of excerpts from "The Problem is", the first publication of the Minimum Cost Housing Group" - 1971.

House construction Amateurs' manuals.
Sulfur industry.
Building materials.
Construction Materials
Habitations Construction Manuels d'amateurs.
Soufre Industrie.
Construction Matériaux.
building materials.
House construction.

Handbooks and manuals.

Ortega, Alvaro, 1920- author.
Rybczynski, Witold, author.
Ayad, Samir, author.
Ali, Wajid, author.
Acheson, Arthur, author.
McGill University, Montreal. School of Architecture. Minimum Cost Housing Group. Problem is ; no. 2.

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