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Edward tufte meets christopher alexander

Proceedings of the 23rd annual international conference on Design of communication: documenting & designing for pervasive information, 2005
This paper examines the relationships between Christopher Alexander's Fifteen Properties of living structures, found in The Nature of Order, and Edward Tufte's Principles of Information Design, found in Envisioning Information. In the examination of examples of Tufte's Principles, we find commonality between the Principles and Alexander's Fifteen ...
John W. Stamey, Thomas L. Honeycutt, Simon Blanchard   +2 more
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Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander

2022
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Christopher Alexander and the language of architecture

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1981
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Christopher Alexander's pattern language

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1999
In a series of books published between 1964 and 1987 (C. Alexander, 1964; 1987; C. Alexander et al., 1975; 1977), Christopher Alexander, an urban planner and architect, has inspired object oriented programmers with his idea of a pattern language, which originally catalogued solutions to common problems faced by any community or individual creating ...
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Christopher Alexander. The need for rationality

2020
Contesti dedicates the Readings section of this issue to the introduction of Christopher Alexander’s book Notes on the synthesis of form published in English by Harvard University Press in 1964 and translated into Italian in 1967 and included in the Saggiatore’s series entitled Urban structure and form founded in that same year by Giancarlo De Carlo ...
Pisano, Carlo, Lucchesi, Fabio
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The Computer-Aided Rough Patterns of Christopher Alexander

Nexus Network Journal, 2020
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Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order

2010
Christopher Alexander is an oft-referenced icon for the concept of patterns in programming languages and design [1–3]. Alexander himself set forth his theory of good architectural design and its pursuit via architectural patterns in three books published in the latter half of the 1970s [4–6]. In a follow-up to his three-volume architectural exposition,
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Obituary: Christopher Alexander (1936-2022)

Urban Morphology, 2023
Howard Davis, Hajo Neis
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The potential of Christopher Alexander's theory and practice of wholeness

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, 2010
This is a paper about how to transfer design patterns from architecture and software engineering to education. It is about the nature of pedagogical patterns -- what specific structures they have -- and about the potential of Christopher Alexander's theory and practice of wholeness as a theoretical starting point for classifying them to develop an ...
Reinhard Bauer, Peter Baumgartner
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Christopher Alexander on Design Patterns and Principles

This chapter offers an account of Christopher Alexander's notions of design patterns and principles. He pioneered the design pattern approach while being sceptical of design principles. The main contribution of this chapter is the exploration of the Alexandrian background to design patterns.
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