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Subsymmetries
01/02/1968
References
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On 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.
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features 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 twenty-seventh transcript includes the Jun-5 interview
05/06/1977
23-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-seventh interview titled “Discussion of Publications (cont.) – Ty Lin story -Retaining wall Theory story”. The transcript of interview #26 has not been found. The first sentence on the transcript reads “Continuation of relationship between ...
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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 twenty-nineth transcript includes the Jun-14 interview
14/06/1977
13-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-nineth interview titled “Mobility – Systems Generating Systems – The City is not a Tree (cont.) – On Making Things – Users – Memories of the Center years”. The largest section is on what it ...
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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 thirty-second transcript includes the second part of the Jun-27 interview
27/06/1977
7-page handwritten transcript of the thirty-second interview titled “The Mapping Density Theorem”. Alexander talks about the aforementioned paper he wrote after “Subsymmetries” and how his lost manuscript “the Universe of Forms” inspired him on that direction.