Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The second transcript includes the Jan-30 interview
30/01/197728-page handwritten transcript of the second interview titled “Biographical Material”; it also includes “Addendum to Biographical 2/6/77”. Most of it is a narrative by Alexander on this childhood years, the years at Cambridge, how he ended up at Harvard in 1958, his experience from his post-graduate years at Harvard and his first publications.
References
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Community and Privacy - Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
01/01/1963
In a carefully studied and detailed analysis, Chermayeff and Alexander propose a new kind of urban order, structured to provide clearly-articulated domains within which various human needs can be fulfilled without interference or conflict with other activities. Their hierarchy of ...
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form
01/01/1964
“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 ...
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Christopher Alexander - The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture
01/01/1983
Dr. Stephen Grawbow, Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Kansas, had been closely associated with Alexander and, in full collaboration with him, has produced a biographical and philosophical study, which examines the development of Alexander’s ideas, from ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The first transcript includes the Jan-22 interview
22/01/1977
17-page handwritten transcript of the first interview titled “Main Points of 1/22/77 Interview”, including twenty-three bullet points. Most of the text is in the form of “Q” and “A” –questions by Stephen Grabow and answers by Christopher Alexander.
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The third transcript includes part of the Jan-30 and the Jan-31 interviews
31/01/1977
34-page handwritten transcript of the third interview titled “Bare Facts – Notes on 1/30/77 Interview + 1/31/77”. In the middle of the transcript there is a second underlined title “Alexander’s theory of generativity”. The discussion between the two is marked ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - Steve's Transcript Numbers
01/07/1977
List of the thirty-four transcripts of the interviews with dates. The #26 transcript, dated Jun-1 has not been found in the physical archive.