Arch. 201 Design I Design with Pattern Languages: Student sketches

15/11/1978

Presentation Drawing

Student studio work includes eleven geometric pattern studies of ornaments.

Designers:

Mahn Oh, Hubert Froyen, Leslie Moldow, Diana Martinez, Carsten Schmunk, Hermann Diederich, Alice Sung, Hye Myoung Kim, Hansjoachim Neis, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

Various

Content of

Academic Course

Design I: Design with Pattern Languages 1978

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Howard Davis

Enrolled students:

Artemis Anninou, Shohreh Daemi, Hermann Diederich, Hubert Froyen, Ramzi Kawar, Hye Myoung Kim, Takeshi Kimura, James McLane, Diana Martinez, Leslie Moldow, Hansjoachim Neis, Mahn Oh, Carsten Schmunk, Alice Sung, …

The course work included three assignments, covering different scales of design: 1) Design of a house; 2) Ornament in buildings; 3) Morphology of a city.

Contents

Drawings

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References

Scientific Research

Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

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 ...