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Architecture and Computers – Proceedings First Boston Architectural Conference
05/12/196459-page document containg the proceedings of the conference on “Architecture and Computers”, organized by the Boston Architectural Center, as a part of its program in local ‘Practicioner Education’. Major architectural institutions and offices, as well as US businesses participated; 600 participants gathered at the Boston Sheraton Plaza. Christopher Alexander addressed the public with “A Much Asked Question about Computers in Design” and criticised those absorbed with the application of the computer as a tool in its own right.
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Good Fit between Form & Context
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Patterns in Software Development
Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...
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On Science of Architecture and Related
Research on new concepts in Complexity Theory and on the way Architecture could be approached as science despite its unique characteristics and qualities.