Arch. 201, Winter 1981 – Introduction to Geometry: Preparatory notes for the studio course

07/12/1981

Design Studio Course, Teaching Assignment

Six versions of the ten topics of the design studio in further detail with notes and indications of the weekly tasks to be completed by the students for each one of them. The six versions, eleven pages in total, have the following headings: “December 7 version, 1980”, “December 6 version”, “Ingrid version December 1”, “Outline of eighteen points Nov. 20, 1980”, “Ingrid’s Version”, and “Dec. 6, 1980 Operational Rules”.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Introduction to Geometry: Properties of Form 1981

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Ten theoretical topics accompanied by ten separate design problems, each lasting one week; results of student’s work to be submitted weekly on a single 20×30 board. The calendar of topics as presented was: 1) Order; 2) Mirror of the Self; ...

References

Published Books

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book One - The Phenomenon of Life 01/01/2002

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

“The Phenomenon of Life”, the first volume of “The Nature of Order” series proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for ...