Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The twenty-second transcript includes the May-04 interview
04/05/197735-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-second interview titled “Biographic (Cont.)”, being a foloow–up of the previous interview on phase II of the Center. Similar matters are discussed and expanded with reference to new CES projects. The question of making building in which “IT” or “The One” or beauty is manifested is still dominating the discussion, and Alexander’s new thoughts on geometry and color are just touched upon.
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Tourist Development for Malaga
1974
The project intent was to solve the deterioration of the tourist areas in the community of Andalusia. The proposal was to untertake a combined program of research, development and construction, which would create a workable model for the repair of ...
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User Designed Apartment Building
1974 to
1975
Design and construction of prototype apartment complex outside Paris. The project was initiated by Francoise Choay, the Minister of Housing in France, in November 1973, when she invited the Center for Environmental Structure to join her analysis of poor quality, ...
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Master Plan for Walnut Creek Town Square
1974
200,000 square feet of rental space for office and commercial use, to be built incrementally.
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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 twenty-first transcript includes the May-01 interview
01/05/1977
50-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-first interview titled “Biographic Cont. – Phase II of the Center”. Alexander expands the discussion into the social and practical politics that shape neighborhoods, the need for improving this structure, the importance of the architect-builder ...
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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 twenty-third transcript includes the May-07 interview
07/05/1977
33-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-third interview titled “Biographic (Cont.) – The One cont.) + Color – Freedom”. The discussion starts with the topic of color, its relation to geometric properties and the process and continues with “The One” and ...
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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.