Article

Relational Complexes in Architecture

01/09/1966

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King, Sara Ishikawa, Michael Baker, Patrick Hyslop

Published in:

Architectural Record, Vol. 140, No. 3, pp. 185-190

Publisher:

McGraw Hill Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

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 ...

Projects

Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit 1964

Bay Area, CA, U.S.A.

Other, Realized

Client:

Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King, Sara Ishikawa

Project stages:

Analysis of requirements by hierarchical decomposition Concept design

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King and Sara Ishikawa acted as consultants to Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons, analyzing design problems in the BART stations, and listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all ...