Von fliessender systematic und generativen Prozessen: Christopher Alexander im Gespraech mit Rem Koolhaas und Hans Ulrich Obrist / From Fluent Systematics and Generative Processes: Christopher Alexander in Conversation with Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The interview was published in the October 2008 issue of the German Architectural magazine “ARCH+ 189: Entwurfsmuster”, under the title “Von fliessender systematic und generativen Prozessen: Christopher Alexander im Gespraech mit Rem Koolhaas und Hans Ulrich Obrist”.

13-page transcript of the interview by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulbrich Obrist in English.