Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The nineth transcript includes the second part of the Mar-06 interview
06/03/197717-page handwritten transcript of the nineth interview titled “Biographical material cont.)”. It includes the months he spend in Europe during 1965-66, his research work in London and the events and ways that led him to start thinking about the ideas included in “The Timeless Way of Building”.
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Internatonale Regio-Planertagung - Internationale Tagung fur Stadt- und Regionalplanung
01/01/1965
Christopher Alexander presented his research work on “The Coordination of the Urban Rule System”, published on 1966 by the Center for Planning and Development Research, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley.
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander
22/01/1977 to
29/06/1977
In 1975 the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Steven Grabow, Professor at the University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Urban Design, an Independent Study and Research Fellowship for the intellectual biography of Christopher Alexander. The terms of the ...
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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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The Timeless Way of Building
01/01/1979
“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 ...
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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 eighth transcript includes the first part of the Mar-06 interview
06/03/1977
3-page handwritten transcript of the eighth interview titled “Misgivings about empiricism with Whitehead Husserl”. Alexander clarifies his position on the subject of empitical reality.
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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 tenth transcript includes the Mar-13 interview
13/03/1977
30-page handwritten transcript of the tenth interview titled “The Question of Implementation”. It discusses the conditions which make the implementation of a project really successful, required processess and pattern languages developed for the project and its users, successes and difficulties ...
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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.