CNU XIV Congress for New Urbanism on “Developing the New Urbanism: Implementation”

03/06/2006

Event Document, Speech Manuscript

8-page summary text of the keynote speech titled “I am a Dreamer”, given at the CNU XIV Congress for New Urbanism, in which he was awarded the Athena Legacy Medal. Alexander discussed his philosophical and practical theories to reformulate the development process. He emphasized the generative codes, which allow the building and rebuilding of the urban environment using a dynamic process that unfolds the structure and creates a welcoming and healthy place for all living things.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, West Sussex, U.K.

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References

Scientific Research

The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...