Harvard University – The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Thesis Acceptance Certificate for the thesis entitled “The Synthesis of Form – Some Notes on a Theory” – Photograph

01/11/1962

University Degree

Photograph of the “Thesis Acceptance Certificate”, signed by Arthur Maass, Serge Chermayeff and Jerome S. Bruner, certifying that the thesis presented by Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander, candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is worthy of acceptance.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

References

Published Books

Notes on the Synthesis of Form 01/01/1964

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

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

“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 ...