Public Event

Internatonale Regio-Planertagung – Internationale Tagung fur Stadt- und Regionalplanung

01/01/1965

Basel, Switzerland

Conference, Professional Event

The Coordination of the Urban Rule System.

References

Scientific Research

Good Fit between Form & Context

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

Goodness of Fit

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 ...
Decomposition Process and the Diagrams

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Early Mathematical Approach

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Articles

The Coordination of the Urban Rule System 01/09/1965

Publication, Book Contribution

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Internationale Regio Planertagung, pp. 168-177