Correspondence

Civic Center and Town Hall for Mountain View: Expressing joy that a story on the Mountain View competition will be written. Also, provides information regarding the unusual process followed on the selection of the competition winner, and urges the reporter to further investigate why the numerous letters and telegrams received in favor of Christopher Alexander’s design proposal were never mentioned at the council meeting.

16/04/1987

Article Publication

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Daralice Boles, Progressive Architecture, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

References

Projects

Civic Center & Town Hall for Mountain View 1986

Mountain View, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Designed , Invited Competition, Not built

Client:

City of Mountain View - Mr. Michael Freedman, c/o ROMA, urban design consultant to the city

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Gary Black

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $17,000,000

Project stages:

Design Development

Invited design competition entry. One of five invited entries and winner of first round selection process. The project with 100,000 square feet of total area of construction included: a) the new City Hall building 65,000 sq.ft.; b) Community Theater with ...

Correspondence

The Mountain View Civic Center Competition Design: Notification that material on Mountain View competition arrived and will be reviewed with other editors; indication that the material regarding the committee's procedures was read and sounds peculiar. 15/04/1987

Publication, Article Publication, Notification

Sender:

Pilar Viladas, Progressive Architecture, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter