Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The twenty-first transcript includes the May-01 interview
01/05/197750-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-first interview titled “Biographic Cont. – Phase II of the Center”. Alexander expands the discussion into the social and practical politics that shape neighborhoods, the need for improving this structure, the importance of the architect-builder and construction as what bring life to buldings. New projects in CES, seminars and classes in the school give him opportunities to expand his understanding on patterns, processes and what could be required for “IT” or wholeness or beauty to be manifested.
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Post-graduate Course on "The Economics, Politics and Implementation of the Pattern Language"
19/11/1973 to
24/11/1973
Post-graduate course entitled “The Economics, Politics and Implementation of the Pattern Language”, given during the week of November 19-24, 1973 at the Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Stockholm. The course included five days of lectures, seminars and discussions ...
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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 ...
References
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Grass Roots Housing
1973
A proposal for an entirely new concept in the field of housing, written in the hope that sponsors will come forward and invest enough seed money to start a number of pilot projects. The proposal covers financing, design, social structure, ...
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Etna Street Cottage
1974
Experimental building project, two-story 400 sq. ft. cottage, with a hollow wooden structure filled with concrete and featherweight concrete vaults. Completed in ten weeks, without a building permit at the back of the C.E.S. office on Etna Street, and was ...
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Tourist Development for Malaga
1974
The project intent was to solve the deterioration of the tourist areas in the community of Andalusia. The proposal was to untertake a combined program of research, development and construction, which would create a workable model for the repair of ...
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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 twentieth transcript includes the Apr-27 interview
27/04/1977
19-page handwritten transcript of the twentieth interview titled “The Actual Peak: What does it take to Make a Beautiful Building – why that’s difficult”. Discussion on the theory, the process and the importance of the actual physical thing.
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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 twenty-second transcript includes the May-04 interview
04/05/1977
35-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-second interview titled “Biographic (Cont.)”, being a foloow–up of the previous interview on phase II of the Center. Similar matters are discussed and expanded with reference to new CES projects. The question of making building ...
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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.