Title & Author:

The Ecol operation : ecology + building + common sense / by Alvaro Ortega ... [et al.].

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

Montreal : Minimum Cost Housing Group, School of Architecture, McGill University, 1975, c1972.

Description:

128 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.

Series:

The Problem is ; no. 2

Notes:
"Published under a Section 5 Grant of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation".
Includes excerpts from The Problem is, by Alvaro Ortega, Witold Rybczynski and Samir Ayad.
Part v report: file no. 116-4-M2-19 ; grant no. 82-74.
Includes bibliographical references.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "1973: désolé, plus d'essence = 1973: sorry, out of gas", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 7, 2007-Apr. 20, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Subject:

Ecol House (Montréal, Québec)
Architecture, Domestic.
Buildings Environmental engineering.
Building materials Research.
Building Research.
Housing Research.
Constructions Technique de l'environnement.
Construction Matériaux Recherche.
Construction Recherche.

Added entries:

Ayad, Samir.
Ortega, Alvaro.
Rybczynski, Witold, 1943-
Ayad, Samir. The problem is / [prepared by Samir Ayad and Witold Rybczynski, ... under Mr. Alvaro Ortega]
Ortega, Alvaro, 1920-
Ortega, Alvaro, 1920- Problem is
Rybczynski, Witold
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group.
Société centrale d'hypothèques et de logement (Canada)
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada)
Part V report.
Problem is ; no. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 57652
Call No.: ID:90-B6000
Status: External loan