Article

Major Changes in Environmental Form Required by Social and Psychological Demands

01/08/1969

Article, Reprint

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

Ekistics, Vol. 28, No. 165, pp. 78-85

Publisher:

Athēnaïko Kentro Oikistikēs - Doxiadis Associates, Athens, Greece

References

Scientific Research 2 Items

On Cognitive Psychology

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Cognitive Psychology

Research on Cognitive Psychology, in the Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. & Harvard University and in the Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University.
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 ...

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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The twelveth transcript includes the second part of the Mar-20 interview 20/03/1977

Public Event, Event Document, Interview Transcript

Authors:

Stephen Grabow, University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Urban Design, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.

30-page handwritten transcript of the twelveth interview titled “Biographical (cont,) – The first seminar in the pattern language”. It discusses the preparation for the 1967 first institutional seminar of CES in Inverness, the questions and subjects addressed in the seminar, ...