Bridge for Puerto Rico: Precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell design

International competion entry for bridge over Rio Grande de Loiza, proposing a precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell design, 500 meter span.

Framed photograph of a pastel painting by Christopher Alexander, depicting a view of the bridge named “The Driving Experience: The View from the Road”.

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...