Arch. 207 Winter 1979 – Seminar on Theory of Urban Design: Notes on class dialogue “The Centering Process”

01/01/1979

Student Work, Seminar Course Notes

7-page notes on “The Centering Process”, a recording of the exchange of ideas between instructors and students in the course of the seminar. There is also a second partial copy of this dialogue, which is illustrated with diagrams and sketches clarifying the points raised during the discussion.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Artemis Anninou, Hermann Diedrich, Ramzi Kawar, Leslie Moldow, Hansjoachim Neis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Advanced Graduate Seminar on Theory of Urban Design 1979

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Seminar

Course number:

Arch. 207

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Enrolled students:

Artemis Anninou, Shohreh Daemi, Hermann Diederich, Ramzi Kawar, Hye Myoung Kim, Leslie Moldow, Hansjoachim Neis

Focus on the Centering Process, Visions, Financing problems, etc.

Contents

Course Material

References

Scientific Research

Wholeness and the Theory of Centers

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christoper Alexander defined and described wholeness as an idea to view and shape space, and searched for ways to formulate and represent wholeness in precise terms, as a structure. He idenfied the entities with 'strength' give structure to what is ...

Published Books

A New Theory of Urban Design 01/01/1987

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The sixth volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “A New Theory of Urban Design” attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. The venerable cities of the past, such ...