Athena Legacy Medal Award: Alexander’s speech delivered at the award ceremony

03/06/2006

Event Document, Speech Manuscript

8-page text of the speech titled “I am a Dreamer”, given by Christopher Alexander at the Athena Legacy Medal award ceremony, which took place during CNU XIV Congress for New Urbanism. He tried to give a coherent and sensible explanation of “wholeness”, asking “How are we to be, and live and remain connected to the Whole”, which is the purpose of architecture.

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Athena Legacy Medal Award 03/06/2006

Providence, RI, U.S.A.

Award-Honor, Medal Award

Christopher Alexander was awarded the inaugural Athena Legacy Medal, by the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), recognizing the pioneers who laid the groundwork for the movement of New Urbanism. It was in 2006 that CNU started a new tradition of ...

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Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
Wholeness and the Theory of Centers

Christoper Alexander defined and described wholeness as an idea to view and shape space, and searched for ways to formulate and represent wholeness in precise terms, as a structure. He idenfied the entities with 'strength' give structure to what is ...