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A Search for Beauty/A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander [PDF]
Urban Science, 2019 Beauty. Christopher Alexander’s prolific journey in building, writing, and teaching was fueled by a relentless search for Beauty and its meaning. While all around him the world was intent on figuring out how to simplify, Alexander came to embrace ...
Richard P. Gabriel, Jenny Quillien
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Reassessing Christopher Alexander’s theory of urban morphogenesis
Computational Urban ScienceThe architect Christopher Alexander made major contributions in architecture, city science, computer science and other fields. His earlier works, notably “A City is Not a Tree,” contributed to the understanding of cities as complex adaptive systems. Less
Michael W. Mehaffy, Ph.D.
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Christopher Alexander As An Architectural Thinker
Urban Planning, 2023 In this commentary the author discusses why Christopher Alexander remains on the margins of contemporary architectural discourse despite his original, important, and lasting contributions to the field.
Almantas Samalavičius
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She Ji, 2020 Christopher Alexander has been a leading pioneer of academic research on architectural and urban design since the early 1960s. He is also a practicing architect and builder with a passion for creating and restoring life and beauty to our physical ...
Per Galle
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Review: Anachronic Renaissance by Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood
Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2011 A review of Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood’s book Anachronic Renaissance, published in 2010 by Zone Books.
Keith Moxey
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Christopher Alexander and the Inadequacy of Genius in the Architecture of the Coming Age
Urban Science, 2020 There are only two ways of looking at any design problem despite all the elaborations evolved from these two paths. Either a designer directs an outcome and creates a product, or a solution is derived from a process involving the people and circumstances
Duo Dickinson
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Living Structure Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: Christopher Alexander [PDF]
Urban Science, 2019 Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: “Far more small things
Bin Jiang
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Christopher Alexander’s Battle for Beauty: Any Prospects of Victory?
She Ji, 2020 Commenting on an essay of mine about the scientific aspects and potentials of Christopher Alexander’s lifelong “battle for beauty” in architectural and urban design, Professor Nikos Salingaros challenged me to take a stand on the political-activist aspect of Alexander’s battle.
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O New Urbanism e a linguagem de padrões de Christopher Alexander
Oculum Ensaios, 2015 O New Urbanism, movimento urbanístico que se desenvolveu na década de 1990 nos Estados Unidos, incorporou, dentre suas práticas, alguns pressupostos presentes em referências anteriores como, por exemplo, em projetos de autoria do arquiteto Christopher ...
Danila Martins de Alencar Battaus
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An Analysis of Christopher Alexander's Understanding of Religious Architecture through the Study of 'Face of God' from the Fourth Volume of His Nature of Order [PDF]
صفه, 2023 Looking at the history of architectural theories, and with reference to the opinions of thinkers, one can see architecture and rhetoric as mutually related throughout history.
Seyedeh Mahsa Bagheri +2 more
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