Article

Relational Complexes in Architecture

01/09/1966

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King, Sara Ishikawa, Michael Baker, Patrick Hyslop

Published in:

Architectural Record, Vol. 140, No. 3, pp. 185-190

Publisher:

McGraw Hill Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

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 ...

Projects 1 Items

Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit 1964

Bay Area, CA, U.S.A.

Other, Realized

Client:

Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King, Sara Ishikawa

Project stages:

Analysis of requirements by hierarchical decomposition Concept design

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King and Sara Ishikawa acted as consultants to Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons, analyzing design problems in the BART stations, and listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all ...

Records 1 Items

Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The twenty-seventh transcript includes the Jun-5 interview 05/06/1977

Public Event, Event Document, Interview Transcript

Authors:

Stephen Grabow, University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Urban Design, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.

23-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-seventh interview titled “Discussion of Publications (cont.) – Ty Lin story -Retaining wall Theory story”. The transcript of interview #26 has not been found. The first sentence on the transcript reads “Continuation of relationship between ...