Go BackLecture course during the Fall Quarter, the second year of Alexander’s teaching as an Associate professor in the Department of Architecture
Fall 1967A series of twenty four lectures starting with organic wholeness, its relatioship to environmental structure, the identification of the building blocks of this structure and their recognition as a system with generative features; and then proceeding to the main body of the lectures on the definition, identification and formulation of patterns and the use of patterns and pattern languages in the design and making of things.
Contents
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Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 2
04/10/1967
Begins with an overview of Environmental Structure as the basis for understanding organic wholeness; the ideas of recurrency and functionality are well articulated.
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Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 3
06/10/1967
Discussion of how structures come to being and how they require maintenance. Further discusses spatial relational structures and varying descriptions of how they are derived: Purely functional, results of rules and regulations and the third by images literally pictured ...
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Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 5
11/10/1967
Discusses the evolution of a pattern language over time. Examples are given and comparisons made to the evolution of organisms. Stocks of patterns and pattern languages are discussed as the central process for controlling out environment, improving the environment by ...
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References
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Good Fit between Form & Context
Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...
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Theory of Patterns and Pattern Languages
In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...
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The Quality without a Name
Christopher Alexander's research for a central quality which he named "the quality without a name", was a search for those attributes and circumstances which give life to events, relationships, buildings and spaces. It set the foundation for identifying the patterns ...