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1963In a carefully studied and detailed analysis, Chermayeff and Alexander propose a new kind of urban order, structured to provide clearly-articulated domains within which various human needs can be fulfilled without interference or conflict with other activities. Their hierarchy of spaces and realms extends from the largest aspect of public urban life to the smallest of individual solitude and is designed to create a rational order of physical relationships based on human qualities.
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Community and Privacy - Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
01/01/1963
In a carefully studied and detailed analysis, Chermayeff and Alexander propose a new kind of urban order, structured to provide clearly-articulated domains within which various human needs can be fulfilled without interference or conflict with other activities. Their hierarchy of ...
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Community and Privacy - Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
01/01/1965
Translation of “Community and Privacy – Toward a New Architecture of Humanism” in Italian and its publication in Italy, in 1965.
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Community and Privacy - Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
01/01/1966
Translation of “Community and Privacy – Toward a New Architecture of Humanism” in Japanese and its publication in Japan, in 1966.
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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 ...
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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 ...