The Building Process Area of Emphasis: Its inception and establishment

1987

The Building Process Area of Emphasis

New area of study in the Architecture Department proposed by Christopher Alexander to the Faculty of the Department. The intellectual content of this area of study laid in the convergence of two streams of thought: a) the concept of wholeness, and b) that the production of wholeness can happen only as a building process.

Contents

Correspondence

Teaching of Architecture: Thoughts on study areas and the Alexander proposal 05/05/1987

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

Marc Treib, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Howard A. Friedman, Members of the Executive Committee, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Course Material

The Building Process - New Area of Emphasis: Summary 01/03/1987

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

8-page summary on the new area of study in the Architecture Department proposed by Christopher Alexander to the Faculty of the Department. It includes detailed description of proposed courses: Main Content, Course Organization, Staffing.
The Building Process - New Area of Emphasis: Proposed courses for Fall 1987 with detailed description 01/01/1987

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Description of proposed courses to be included in “The Building Process: New Area of Emphasis” for Fall 1987, Spring 1987, Fall 1988 and Spring 1988; followed by detailed description of the Fall 1987 courses, Arch. 209 The Nature of Order, ...