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Lecture by Christopher Alexander at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University: Visual material used in the lecture for illustrating his points

17/11/1982

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Pairs of photographs mostly of buildings, used by Christopher Alexander in the lecture, each one comparing side-by-side one contemporary building with a building from the past, in order to argue the point that the “works of our time simply do not belong to that family of things buildings that I’ ve just shown” –using his own words. He showed eleven examples of pairs, but the archive inludes the photographs of the following first five pairs, and one of the photographs of the last two pairs. .

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Lecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 17/11/1982

Piper Auditorium, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

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Christopher Alexander gave a talk before a large audience in the Graduate School of Design, the school from which he received his Ph.D. in architecture in 1963. He touched on his research on spatial unity and deep stucture, he elaborated ...

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Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: Transcript of lecture 17/11/1982

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19-page transcript of the Christopher Alexander lecture on “Architecture’s New Scientific Foundations”, a kind of progress report on the development of his ideas on the order of space as a deep phenomenon, on the importance of recognizing the deep structure ...

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Lecture by Christopher Alexander at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University: Visual material used in the lecture for illustrating his points 17/11/1982

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Twelve photographs used by Christopher Alexander in the lecture to illustrate examples of physical things which have deep structure, which he called ‘wholeness’. The examples he chose to show were all from traditional or historical societies, and were the following: ...