Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The seventh transcript includes the second part of the Feb-27 interview

27/02/1977

Event Document, Interview Transcript

15-page handwritten transcript of the seventh interview titled “Biographical material cont.)” with long narratives by Alexander about the years in Harvard, finishing the “The Notes”, recalling his work for the Indian village and the meeting with Prestini in Ahmedabad, his first lecture and classes at Berkeley, his work for the BART project and the importance of diagrams as generic entities.

Content of

Public Event 1 Items

Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander 22/01/1977 to 29/06/1977

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Interview

In 1975 the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Steven Grabow, Professor at the University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Urban Design, an Independent Study and Research Fellowship for the intellectual biography of Christopher Alexander. The terms of the ...

References

Published Books 1 Items

Christopher Alexander - The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture 01/01/1983

Publication, Original Book

Dr. Stephen Grawbow, Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Kansas, had been closely associated with Alexander and, in full collaboration with him, has produced a biographical and philosophical study, which examines the development of Alexander’s ideas, from ...

Projects 1 Items

Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit 1964

Bay Area, CA, U.S.A.

Other, Realized

Christopher Alexander, Van Maren King and Sara Ishikawa acted as consultants to Wuster, Bernardi and Emmons, analyzing design problems in the BART stations, and listing the 390 requirements the Rapid System Transit Station should cover, organized in thirty-three groups; all ...

Academic Courses 1 Items

Lectures on Environment 1964

Academic,

Christopher Alexander discusses these lectures when interviewed by Stephen Grabow, and recalls: “I gave the course with Sim Van der Ryn and the way we ran it was we posed ten questions and then each week we would give two ...

Manuscripts 1 Items

The Universe of Forms 01/01/1965

Publication, Lost Manuscript

Unpublished and accidentally burnt manuscript; Alexander talked about it with Grabow saying “I was spending a considerable part of these eighteen months trying to write this book… I was looking for those mathematical structures that would represent forms on a ...

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