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Christopher Alexander and Contemporary Architecture
01/08/1993
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Requesting specific slide images from books, articles, CES slides, and asking for Christopher Alexander's permission to have duplicates to be used in an article titled "Linkages". Also, a request for feedback by Christopher Alexander is noted in a phone memo. Notes with a list of Illustrations are attached
09/02/1991
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"Christopher Alexander and Contemporary Architecture" Article: List of sources for illustrations to be included in Ingrid King's draft "Linkages"
02/10/1991
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Christopher Alexander and Contemporary Architecture - Linkages between Contemporary Architecture and the Theories of Christopher Alexander: Ingrid King's draft for the article
01/06/1991
Draft with notes for the A+U, Aug-1993 issue dedicated to Christopher Alexander under the title “Christopher Alexander and Contemporary Architecture”. An earlier draft tagged “New” and dated Mar-1991 is also included.
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Christopher Alexander and Contemporary Architecture: Ingrid King's draft for the article
01/01/1993
Approximately 190-page draft with notes for the A+U, Aug-08 issue dedicated to Christopher Alexander under the title “Christopher Alexander and Contemporary Architecture”.
References
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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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Designing with Patterns and Generic Rules for Making Centers
Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...
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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form
01/01/1964
“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In ...
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A Pattern Language
01/01/1977
“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...
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The Timeless Way of Building
01/01/1979
“The Timeless Way of Building” is the opening work in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. Here Alexander introduces the ideas behind the succeeding books. The book lays the foundation of the series. It ...
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Low Cost Houses for Mexicali
1975 to
1977
A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House
1977 to
1984
The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...
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Sala House
1981 to
1983
Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...
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Sala House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with red and grey cast concrete exterior walls
1982
Timber frame and concrete combination system: the vertical loads are taken by the interior post-and-beam system system, where columns and beams are simply pinned together by invinsible steel pins. All shear forces are taken by a one and a half ...
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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air
1988
The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...
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Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Low-cost reinforced concrete beam and column structure with brick infill
1989
The form of construction was based on a building system developed by Consutyamos for "self-help" housing; however a modified version was used, in order to take care of the non-modular and non-repetitive character of the houses, and in order to ...