Go BackResearch Seminar by The Center for Environmental Structure, an independent non- profit organization, incorporated in late March 1967, and set up to create an environmental pattern language
01/07/1967 to 30/09/1967Research seminar on the question of the structure and formulation of a pattern and a pattern language, and the process and activities required for their development. The basic concepts introduced were those of “an environmental pattern” and of “an environmetal pattern language”. The outcome of the seminar was summarized in its proceedings, organized in six sections. The participants in the seminar were Christopher Alexander, Thomas I. Bartha, Alan M. Hershdorfer, Sara Ishikawa, Roslyn Lindheim, Marvin L. Manheim, Harris Savin, Murray Silverstein and Sim Van der Ryn.
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Seminar of the Center for Environmental Structure: Alexander's typewritten notes on the structure of a pattern; seven questions with respective responses
01/01/1967
Draft aimed at answering seven questions, to be taken as a basis for discussion on patterns during the seminar.
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Proceedings of the Seminar held by The Center for Environmental Structure during July, August and September 1967
01/07/1967
Bound document which contains six papers: 1) The Center for Environmental Structure description; 2) Pattern Manual; 3) Patterns of Streets; 4) Lane Orientation in a Street System; 5) Conditions for a Pattern to be Valid and Useful; 6) Organization of ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The twelveth transcript includes the second part of the Mar-20 interview
20/03/1977
30-page handwritten transcript of the twelveth interview titled “Biographical (cont,) – The first seminar in the pattern language”. It discusses the preparation for the 1967 first institutional seminar of CES in Inverness, the questions and subjects addressed in the seminar, ...
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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 ...