Go BackSteven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander – The twenty-seventh transcript includes the Jun-5 interview
05/06/197723-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-seventh interview titled “Discussion of Publications (cont.) – Ty Lin story -Retaining wall Theory story”. The transcript of interview #26 has not been found. The first sentence on the transcript reads “Continuation of relationship between “Subsymmetries” and “The One”. It continues with discussions on several articles Alexander published and papers he wrote, and ends with him challenging the way retaining walls are constructed.
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"The City is a Semi-Lattice, but not a Tree": Original text of article "A City is not a Tree"
01/01/1964
Original 37-page text of the famous article, a milestone in the development of Alexander’s theory on design, possibly presented in a lecture before being published; at the bottom of the first page it reads “with thanks to Harris Savin for ...
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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-fifth transcript includes the May-29 interview
29/05/1977
28-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-fifth interview titled “Working with women – Art and Science – Cambridge Interview and Construction – Addendum to Search the Rules”. The transript text has for the first time subtitles — “The People” pp. 2-9, ...
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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-eighth transcript includes the Jun-12 interview
12/06/1977
32-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-eighth interview titled “Ingrid’s choosing of pictures – Three Hobbies – Patterns and Environments as living Systems (social change) + Ordinariness revisited – The sourse of yearning for things to be all right”. The largest ...
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