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Construction of Gujarat village school, 1961

Alexander's first architectural project, built at age 24 in a village in Gujarat, India, inventing the guna-tile vault technique.

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  • Guna-Tile Stacked Vault
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    Alexander's 1961 invention using conical clay tiles stacked and riffled like a deck of cards to form near-spherical vaults without wood formwork.
  • Cotton-Baling Strap Tension Tie
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    Alexander's improvised use of agricultural packing strap as a tension ring to resist outward thrust in the Gujarat school dome.