Arch. 207, Fall 1980 – Seminar on Advanced Topics on Geometry and Wholeness: Handouts and brief essays on wholeness, centers, centering process, simplicity seeking process and not-separateness

01/09/1980
Student Work, Seminar Course Notes

Fifty four pages with a mixture of notes from a seminar held by Christopher Alexander with Artemis Anninou, Hajo Neis and Nili Portugali, on the following topics: 1) On wholeness and the process to attain it, 13-Oct-1980; 2) On the different ways – “plateaus” for communicating what wholeness is, 20-Oct-1980; 3) On the process which generates wholeness, 27-Oct-1980; 4) The concept of a whole and wholeness; 5) On centers and the centering process; 6) How does the centering process help on the laying-out of part of the Moshav Shorashim; 7) Questions concerning the “entities” and centering with an example. .

Authors:
Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Hansjoachim Neis, Nili Portugali, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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