Published Book

De la Synthese de la Forme, Essai

01/01/1971

Translation in French
On the Synthesis of the Form, Essay

Translation of “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” in French and its publication in France, in 1971.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Translator:

Jacques Engelmann, Jacques Sinizergues

Title translation:

On the Synthesis of the Form, Essay

Publisher:

Dunod, Paris, France

Language:

French

Content of

Book

Notes on the Synthesis of Form 1964

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

216 pp

“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 ...