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A Complex-Network Perspective on Alexander's Wholeness
, 2016 The wholeness, conceived and developed by Christopher Alexander, is what exists to some degree or other in space and matter, and can be described by precise mathematical language.
Jiang, Bin
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Social Sustainability and Alexander’s Living Structure Through a New Kind of City Science
Urban Planning, 2023 The disputed endorsement of inherited visceral and universal aesthetic preferences justifies the scientific validity of Alexander’s living structure. Apart from implying a resource-efficient way to promote well-being through urban design, the premise ...
Tarina Levin +3 more
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Les gestes de l’intime : Christopher & Alexander [PDF]
Décadrages, 2008 Lors de la premiere de Christopher & Alexander aux Journees de Soleure 1974, on traita son auteur aussi bien de « putain du cinema » que de « peintre de cour ». Le film, portrait documentaire de deux enfants realise par Fredi Murer a la demande du pere, s’inspire d’une pratique qui releve du prive.
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Alexander’s Theories Applied to Urban Design
Urban Science, 2018 Christopher Alexander has presented key concepts, such as wholeness, centres, and harmony-seeking computations, related to the coherence reached by a system.
Alice Rauber, Romulo Krafta
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Community and Privacy in a Hyper-Connected World
Urban Planning, 2023 Christopher Alexander and Serge Chermayeff co-authored Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism in 1963. This seminal contribution has largely been forgotten.
Roderick J. Lawrence
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A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole
, 2017 A city is a whole, as are all cities in a country. Within a whole, individual cities possess different degrees of wholeness, defined by Christopher Alexander as a life-giving order or simply a living structure.
Jiang, Bin
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The status quo of architecture and its impact on urban management: Christopher Alexander's insights
Journal of Urban ManagementChristopher Alexander argued that modernist approach to architecture prioritizes innovation, abstraction, and mechanistic efficiency at the expense of human-centered and organic values.
Bin Jiang
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The relevance of Elvan Silva’s architectural discourse
ARQUISUR Revista, 2023 This article addresses the architectural design process by exploring different theoretical and practical perspectives. It analyzes issues such as user participation, the relationship between theory and practice, the pursuit of a universal architectural ...
Fernando dos Santos Calvetti
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, 2018 In a straightforward meta-level shift of focus, we use design patterns as a medium and process for capturing insight about the process of design. We survey mainstream design genres, and draw conclusions about how they can help inform the design of ...
Corneli, Joseph +6 more
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