Letter sent by a student to Christopher Alexander, accompanying a report of his seminar “Arch. 207, Fall 1979 – Introduction to Geometry”. The student expressed the seminar’s long term, profound impact, and her personal evaluation of a different teaching approach being more effective

Three part course: 1) Structure of space with harmony and order in it; 2) Fundamental properties of space, the necessary and sufficient preconditions for this order to occur; 3) Designs which have this harmony and order in them.

“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 ...

A complete record by a student about Arch. 207 seminar with syllabus, notes, projects, examples and personal thoughts; compiled and sent on May of 1984.

Three part course: 1. Learning to recognize the structure of space which has harmony and order in it; 2. Learning to understand the dozen or so fundamental properties of space which are the necessary and sufficient preconditions for this order ...