Go BackIndependent Study Course in City Planning and Psychology Departments
Spring 1980Course organized between the City Planning and Psychology Departments, attended by Alexander’s students.
Contents
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The Identification of Good Buildings and their Physical Geometrical Properties: Test No. II
01/06/1980
40-page paper to be given to various experts who would decide if they agree upon the four proposed concepts: 1) Structural Hierarchy of Centers, 2) Symmetries, 3) Contrast, 4) Positive-Negative Space – Figure-Ground Relation. It contains analysis of the concepts ...
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The Identification of Good Places and their Physical Properties
01/02/1980
42-page paper on a test conducted in a class by the authors, with the task to identify a common understanding of what people consider to be “good” places, beautiful towns, buildings and rooms which have a “spirit of place”. The ...
References
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...