Article

The State of the Art In Design Methodology: Interviewed by Max Jacobson

01/03/1971

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Max Jacobson

Published in:

Design Methods Group (DMG) Newsletter , Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3-7

Publisher:

Sage Publications Inc., Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

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 ...
Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

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Max Jacobson Interviews Christopher Alexander 01/03/1971

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Interview

Interviewed by:

Max Jacobson

Interview by Max Jacobson, student of Christopher Alexander, and colleague at the Center for Environmental Structure. The interview was published in “Design Methods Group (DMG) Newsletter” on March 1971, as part of the article “The State of the Art in ...