Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The thirteenth transcript includes the Mar-23 interview
23/03/197720-page handwritten transcript of the thirteenth interview titled “On Diagrams, Quality Without a Name and Fear”. It starts with a discussion on diagrams, their initial use for the Indian village, several articles, the BART project, and how Alexander started to consider them as generic entities from which a specific design could be composed. It then continues by recalling the years 1967-69 during which Alexander realized the existence of a particular quality in certain places, which he named “The quality without a name”.
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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 twelveth transcript includes the second part of the Mar-20 interview
20/03/1977
30-page handwritten transcript of the twelveth interview titled “Biographical (cont,) – The first seminar in the pattern language”. It discusses the preparation for the 1967 first institutional seminar of CES in Inverness, the questions and subjects addressed in the seminar, ...
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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 fourteenth transcript includes the Apr-6 interview
06/04/1977
28-page handwritten transcript of the fourteenth interview titled “About the Book – On the possibility of Utopia – Seeding Process”. The issue of how the book will be organized and in what form Alexander’s narratives will be included in the ...
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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.