Correspondence

The Gatemaker Project: A 16-point list with the discussed changes titled: “Next Improvements in Gatemaker” is forwarded with a request to complete the list.

01/01/1997

Design Matters, Outstanding Issues

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Greg Bryant, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Note

Content of

Project 1 Items

The Gatemaker Project 1997 to 2000

Other, Designed

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Greg Bryant, Olga Volchkova, Peter Gabriel

Sponsor:

Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems' co-founder

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 ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

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 ...