Discord Over Harmony in Architecture: The Eisenman / Alexander Debate

Scientific Research

Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

Wholeness as an Objective Quality

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 ...

Articles

Contrasti sul Concetto de Armonia in Architettura: Dibattito tra Christopher Alexander e Peter Eisenman / Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture: Debate between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman 01/01/1983

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Italian,English

Authors:

Peter Eisenman, Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Lotus International: Quarterly Architectural Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 60-68

Publisher:

Editoriale Lotus Srl., Milan, Italy

Language:

Italian, English
Osservazioni ai Margini del Dibattito tra Alexander e Eisenman / Marginal Comments on the Debate Between Alexander and Eisemnan 01/01/1983

Publication, Article

Authors:

Georges Teyssot

Published in:

Lotus International: Quarterly Architectural Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 69-73

Publisher:

Editoriale Lotus Srl., Milan, Italy

Language:

Italian, English
Zur Macht der Gefühle: Peter Eisenman im Gespräch mit Christopher Alexander / Towards the power of feelings: The Eisenman - Alexander debate 01/03/1984

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in German

Authors:

Peter Eisenman, Christopher Alexander

Published in:

ARCH+ 73: Christopher Alexander: Entwerfen mit einer Pattern Language - Special Issue, No. 73, pp. 70-73

Publisher:

ARCH+ Verlag, Berlin, Germany

Language:

German
Discord Over Harmony in Architecture: The Eisenman - Alexander Debate 01/09/1984

Publication, Article, Reprint, Translation in Japanese,English

Authors:

Peter Eisenman, Christopher Alexander

Published in:

A+U Architecture and Urbanism, No. 168, pp. 19-28

Publisher:

A+U Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Language:

Japanese, English

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Public Events

Lecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 17/11/1982

Piper Auditorium, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Invited Lecture, Academic Event

Organized by:

The Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Christopher Alexander gave a talk before a large audience in the Graduate School of Design, the school from which he received his Ph.D. in architecture in 1963. He touched on his research on spatial unity and deep stucture.

Visual & Audio Materials

Lecture on "The Nature of Order", given during Fall 1991 03/09/1991

Academic, Audio, Tape

Created by:

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

Cassette tape of the third Fall semester lecture by Christopher Alexander on the “Idea of Life, Value, Objectivity and Objective Geometric Structure”, part of a series of lectures on “The Nature of Order”; the duration of the lecture is about ...