Understanding Complexity Through Pattern Languages in Biological and Man-Made Architectures. Comparisons between Biological and Architectonic Patterns

“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...

“The Phenomenon of Life”, the first volume of “The Nature of Order” series proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for ...

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...

Memorandum addressed to Sun Microsystems’ co-founder Bill Joy, who had provided funds for the experimental project “Gatemaker”. Christopher Alexander refers to the implications such a tool could have for computing and design .

Memorandum written after the meeting in Aspen, between the Center for Environmental Structure Computing and Sun Microsystems, explaining the experimental process that led to the computer program named “Gatemaker”, and summarizing what has been achieved and what not. A longer ...

Report presented at the meeting in Aspen, between the Center for Environmental Structure Computing and Sun Microsystems, explaining the philosophy of good programming and its application in the experimental computer program named “Gatemaker”.