ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Projects Office of Ina-Casa and the design manuals in order to understand the vision of the Ina-Casa administration as it was communicated to designers. The four design manuals produced by the Projects Office are small pamphlets, roughly six by nine inches in size and ranging from 50 to 82 pages in length. Through the design manuals, the Projects Office sought to inspire the architects working on the plan to conceive of their work as creating healthy domestic environments. The first two manuals prescribe more limited and definitive characteristics for the architecture of Ina-Casa neighborhoods. As the size of typical Ina-Casa projects grew into residential quarters, the administration began work on a second manual to communicate their expectations for urban design. The aim of Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) to "work for the creation of a physical environment that will satisfy man's emotional needs", taken at face value, seems to share with the aims of Ina-Casa.
