Article

The Design of Highway Interchanges: An Example of a General Method for Analyzing Engineering Design Problems

01/01/1965

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Marvin Manheim

Published in:

Highway Research Record, No. 83, pp. 48-87

Publisher:

Highway Research Board, Washington, DC, 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 ...
Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

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