Go BackLecture course during the Fall Quarter, the second year of Alexander’s teaching as an Associate professor in the Department of Architecture
Fall 1967Series of twenty four lectures starting with organic wholeness, its relatioship to environmental structure, the identification of the building blocks of this structure and their recognition as a system with generative features; and then proceeding to the main body of the lectures on the definition, identification and formulation of patterns and the use of patterns and pattern languages in the design and making of things.
Contents
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Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 2
04/10/1967
16-page lecture transcript, which begins with an overview of ‘environmental structure’ as the basis for understanding organic wholeness; the ideas of recurrency and functionality are well articulated.
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Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 3
06/10/1967
15-page lecture transcript, delivered on October 6, 1967. It starts with the question of how ‘environmental structures’ come to being and how they are maintained. It further continues with what are the processes which generate spatial relational structures –or otherwise ...
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Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 5
11/10/1967
16-page lecture transcript, delivered on October 11, 1967. The idea introduced is that a pattern language is evolving over time; the example and analogy used is the formation and evolution of organisms. Patterns and pattern languages are discussed as the ...
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References
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Good Fit between Form & Context
Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...
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Theory of Patterns and Pattern Languages
In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...
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The Quality without a Name
Christopher Alexander's research for a central quality which he named "the quality without a name", was a search for those attributes and circumstances which give life to events, relationships, buildings and spaces. It set the foundation for identifying the patterns ...