Correspondence

The Gatemaker Project: Forwarding a brief 8-page memorandum describing the experimental process used to create Gatemaker, and assessing the level of progress made so far; in responce to comments made in Aspen summit and afterwards.

08/04/1997

Design Matters, Memorandum

Sender:

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

Recipient:

Mike Clary, Aspen Smallworks, Aspen, CO, U.S.A.

Medium:

Fax

Content of

Project 1 Items

The Gatemaker Project 1997 to 2000

Other, Designed

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Greg Bryant, Olga Volchkova, Peter Gabriel

Sponsor:

Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems' co-founder

The Gatemaker project provides an enlightening lens through which to examine the interplay of ideas between Christopher Alexander and computing, over the last half-century. Interest in his work became intense by 1996, so his team secured funding for a research ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

Records 1 Items

Moore House: Discussion notes from phone conversations 11/04/1997

Project, Funding of Works, Memorandum

Authors:

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

Digitized

Memorandum addressed to Sun Microsystems’ co-founder Bill Joy, who had provided funds for the experimental project “Gatemaker”. Christopher Alexander refers to the implications such a tool could have for computing and design .