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

Published Books 1 Items

Christopher Alexander - The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture 01/01/1983

Publication, Original Book

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 ...

Projects 5 Items

Master Plan for the Village of Bavra 1962 to 1963

Bavra, near Mehmedabad, Gujarat, India

Master Planning, Designed , Completed in 1963

An agricultural village of six hundred people, which is to be reorganized to make it fit present and future conditions developing in rural India, is an example for testing a theory of analysis of functions and sythesis of spatial entities. ...
Stanislaus County Mental Health Center 1970 to 1973

Modesto, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1973

A community mental health center for outpatients and outpatient care with seven buildings, including clinics, outpatient facilities, therapeutic departments for adults, teenagers and children, staff facilities, administrative offices, gardens, courts and walkways, with total area 24,000 square feet. The key ...
People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Proposal completed in 1974

Neighborhood-controlled planning process, in which the energy of the people of the town is liberated, and join together in the creation, growth and constant repair of the common land. It proposes the local neighborhood as the fundamental unit for a ...
Low Cost Houses for Mexicali 1975 to 1977

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1977

A cluster of houses for large families, with a builders yard, built by the families themselves with the help of students from the Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, and a team of builders from the Center for Environmental Structure. Each house ...
Master Plan for the University of Oregon 1967 to 1973

Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Realized , Completed in 1971 and impletented

A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...

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