The Gatemaker Project: Forwarding a brief 8-page memorandum describing the experimental process used to create Gatemaker, and assessing the level of progress made so far; in responce to comments made in Aspen summit and afterwards.

The Gatemaker project provides an enlightening lens through which to examine the interplay of ideas between Christopher Alexander and computing, over the last half-century. Interest in his work became intense by 1996, so his team secured funding for a research ...

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

Memorandum addressed to Sun Microsystems’ co-founder Bill Joy, who had provided funds for the experimental project “Gatemaker”. Christopher Alexander refers to the implications such a tool could have for computing and design .