Article

Information and an Organized Process of Design – A Research Project Proposal

01/03/1961

Book Contribution

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Proceedings of the Building Research Institute (BRI) Conference, pp. 115-124

Publisher:

Building Research Institute (BRI), Washington, DC, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

Good Fit between Form & Context

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

Goodness of Fit

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 ...
Decomposition Process and the Diagrams

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Early Mathematical Approach

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Articles

Public Events

"New Building Research" Conference of the Building Research Institute (BRI) 01/03/1961

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Conference, Academic Event

Organized by:

Building Research Institute (BRI), Division of Engineering and Industrial Research

Christopher Alexander, who had complete his research appointment at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, presented his research proposal titled “Information and an Organized Process of Design,” requesting funding from BRI for pursuing his researh on correlating information about ...