Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The twelveth transcript includes the second part of the Mar-20 interview
20/03/197730-page handwritten transcript of the twelveth interview titled “Biographical (cont,) – The first seminar in the pattern language”. It discusses the preparation for the 1967 first institutional seminar of CES in Inverness, the questions and subjects addressed in the seminar, as well as the establishment of CES as a non-profit organization. It concludes with describing the first period of CES, the people, the projects, the work on the pattern language, the office atmosphere. .
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Research Seminar by The Center for Environmental Structure, an independent non- profit organization, incorporated in late March 1967, and set up to create an environmental pattern language
01/07/1967 to
30/09/1967
Research seminar on the question of the structure and formulation of a pattern and a pattern language, and the process and activities required for their development. The basic concepts introduced were those of “an environmental pattern” and of “an environmetal ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander
22/01/1977 to
29/06/1977
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 ...
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A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers
01/01/1968
The first of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, notably the first pattern language for a project. It is presented as a system of generating principles, called a pattern language for multi-service centers. It includes 64 ...
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Christopher Alexander - The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture
01/01/1983
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 ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The eleventh transcript includes the first part of the Mar-20 interview
20/03/1977
15-page handwritten transcript of the eleventh interview titled “On Working with Others”. Alexander discusses his need and preference to work with others in order to make progress in his theories and works; he refers to student seminars and to the ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The thirteenth transcript includes the Mar-23 interview
23/03/1977
20-page handwritten transcript of the thirteenth interview titled “On Diagrams, Quality Without a Name and Fear”. It starts with a discussion on diagrams, their initial use for the Indian village, several articles, the BART project, and how Alexander started to ...
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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - Steve's Transcript Numbers
01/07/1977
List of the thirty-four transcripts of the interviews with dates. The #26 transcript, dated Jun-1 has not been found in the physical archive.