The Synthesis of Form – Some Notes on a Theory: Ph.D. dissertation by Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander, in the archives of the Harvard University Library – Photograph

01/11/1962

University Degree

Photograph of a page with the names of the persons who have used the thesis, with signatues and dates, attesting acceptance of the Harvard University restrictions regarding literary rights.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

References

Published Books

Notes on the Synthesis of Form 01/01/1964

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

“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 ...