Lecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

27/10/1982

Event Document, Speech Manuscript

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 of things and the geometric properties. A number of pictures were used to illustrate the points, which are only referenced by their subject in the transcript.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

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

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

Invited Lecture, Academic Event

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The Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

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.

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Scientific Research

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Lecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 27/10/1982

Public Event, Audio, Mp3 Recording

Audio recording of the lecture Christopher Alexander gave at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.