Article

Subsymmetries

01/02/1968

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Susan Carey

Published in:

Perception and Psychophysics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 73-77

References

Scientific Research

On Cognitive Psychology

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Cognitive Psychology

Research on Cognitive Psychology, in the Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. & Harvard University and in the Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University.
Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Articles

On Changing the Way People See 01/07/1964

Publication, Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, A. W. F. Huggins

Published in:

Perceptual and Motor Skills, No. 19, pp. 235-253

Publisher:

Southern University Press, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.

Visual & Audio Materials

Lecture on "The Nature of Order", given during Fall 1992 03/09/1992

Academic, Audio, Tape

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Cassette tape of the third Fall semester lecture by Christopher Alexander, on “The Wholeness Which Exists in Things”, part of a series of lectures on “The Nature of Order”; the duration of the lecture is about fifty nine minutes. In ...