Go BackPost-graduate Course on “The Economics, Politics and Implementation of the Pattern Language”
19/11/1973 to 24/11/1973Post-graduate course entitled “The Economics, Politics and Implementation of the Pattern Language”, given during the week of November 19-24, 1973 at the Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Stockholm. The course included five days of lectures, seminars and discussions .
Contents
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The Economics, Politics and Implementation of the Pattern Language
19/11/1973
20-page shortened transcript of tape recording of the course proceedings, addressed to the students of the Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Design Methods.
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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 twenty-first transcript includes the May-01 interview
01/05/1977
50-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-first interview titled “Biographic Cont. – Phase II of the Center”. Alexander expands the discussion into the social and practical politics that shape neighborhoods, the need for improving this structure, the importance of the architect-builder ...
References
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...
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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 ...