The Theory and Invention of Form

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 ...

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 ...

“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In ...

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 ...

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 ...