Go BackLecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
17/11/1982Christopher 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 on the physical structure wholeness generates, and introduced the fifteen fundamental geometric properties.
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Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: Informing Alexander that a review of his lecture at Harvard will be published in "HGSD News" and a copy of it is enclosed.
10/12/1982
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Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: With reference to the 10-Dec letter by Millimen, she emphasizes that the response by Alexander is being expected shortly, and that the tapes from the discussion with Eisenman have been tracked down and she is preparing an edited version for publication.
20/12/1982
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Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: Transcript of lecture
17/11/1982
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 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: Review of lecture intended for publication
10/12/1982
4-page text reviewing Alexander’s lecture on “Architecture’s New Scientific Foundations”, intended for publication in “HGSD News” journal.
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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
9 9th example - Persian bowl, 9th century
17/11/1982
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: ...
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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
9 5th pair - The plan of Alhambra paired with the Renaissance Center plan, Detroit
17/11/1982
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 ...
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