Record

Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Book cover layout

01/01/1964

Book Design, Book Cover

One complete and final front cover page of the published book, with three full scale samples of the title and author name used on the cover.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

Notes on the Synthesis of Form 01/01/1964

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 ...