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Arch. 207, Spring 1980 – Advanced Topics in Geometry & Special Problems: Different versions of the Centering Process
02/04/1980A compilation of fifty pages on the centering process approached through six different ways: 1) Definition of Centering Process, Fall 1979; 2) Example of Centering Process, Fall 1978, with shirt-tail design; 3) A Simplicity Seeking Process; 4) The Presence of a “Being” in the Thing Made; 5) The Childish Mind; 6) Existence of a Proces; the 1978 and 1979 papers are in depth explorations of the subject, while the remaining four are the beginning of some new ways at looking at the same phenomenon .
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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 ...
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Wholeness and the Theory 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 ...