Symposium titled “Good Building”: Presentation by Christopher Alexander, “Good Building Symposium” – April 1, 1998.
01/09/199811-page transcript of Alexander’s presentation discussing the concepts explaining ‘what is a good building’ and how this could be accomplished today. A forwarding letter is attached requesting his review before it is published. .
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On Cognitive Psychology
Research on Cognitive Psychology, in the Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T. & Harvard University and in the Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University.
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Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
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Wholeness and Feeling in Structure-Enhancing Transformations
Christopher Alexander formulated this principle as follows: In any living process, or any process of design or making, the way forward, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. "Feeling" ...
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Linz Café
1980
Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...
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Eishin Campus - High School
1982 to
1995
The High School is the part of the Eishin Campus that was constructed, with a total construction area of 12,000 square meters. It is a complex of thirty-five buildings, with pedestrian colonnaded streets, gates and gardens, and a lake with ...
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center
1994 to
1996
The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...