The Building Process Area of Emphasis: Its inception and establishment

1988

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: Submission for a series of 13 courses to the departmental chair and college curriculum committee for course approval of 13 different courses. Descriptions are attached for each course 28/11/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: Refers to 'Building Process' Position 11/11/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

Donlyn Lyndon, Sanford Hirshen, Stanley Saitowitz, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: Refers to "Building Process Area Advertisement"; refers to critical points to be retained. Includes three versions with edited introduction 18/11/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: Regarding the Building Process Assistant Professor position 12/04/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: Course Approvals for Proposal for New Area of Emphasis 13/12/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

Gary R. Brown, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: RE: Your speculation concerning Senate Committee on courses reaction to the academic legitimacy of our proposed Arch 263a and 263b; response to Gary R. Brown's letter 17/12/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

Gary R. Brown, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: Recommendation for Ingrid King - Appointment in The Building Process area of emphasis; Arch 201, section 1 and Arch 202, section 5, Spring 1988 07/02/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter
Teaching of Architecture: Letter in support of hiring Ingrid King as lecturer in Spring 1988 05/01/1988

Proposal for New Area of Emphasis

Sender:

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

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter