Go BackArchitectural Lecture Series: The Growth of Order from Small Acts
06/02/197427-page transcript of a lecture given in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley in 1974. Alexander talked about order and growth, using examples of biological growth, followed by descriptions of several projects that he was working on, and making the point that urban design should follow a process of incremental growth which succeeds in creating ordered larger wholes though small acts.
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Stanislaus County Mental Health Center
1970 to
1973
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Canary Island Tourist Resort
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Grass Roots Housing
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A proposal for an entirely new concept in the field of housing, written in the hope that sponsors will come forward and invest enough seed money to start a number of pilot projects. The proposal covers financing, design, social structure, ...
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