Article

The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact

01/10/1966

Paper, University Publication

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Scientific Research 3 Items

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.
Good Fit between Form & Context

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

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 ...

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American Institute of Planners Conference 01/01/1967

Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Conference, Academic Event

Christopher Alexander presented his research work on “The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact”, published on 1966 by the Center for Planning and Development Research, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley.

Records 1 Items

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

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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, ...