Japanese Tea House Sequence: A sequence of statements about the form of a tea house

01/01/1972

Research Paper

Sequence of statements about the form of a traditional Japanese tea house, written on twenty-four cards, that when read out, one at a time, by the end one gets a complete and coherent image of a finished tea-house in one’s mind; it was studied in a seminar with Ph.D. students taught by Christopher Alexander, at the time the pattern language was in the initial phase of its conception. .

Authors:

Christopher Alexander with his Ph.D. students, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Advisor in the Ph.D. Program in Architecture 1972

University Program:

Ph.D. in Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Seminar

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Special course in 1972 for Ph.D. candidates.

References

Scientific Research

The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...

Published Books

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Two - The Process of Creating Life 01/01/2002

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...