The Aspen Summit: The Gate Maker, Proposal to C. Itoh Company – Computer-Supported House Construction Business

01/04/1997

Planning of Works, Proposal Brief

Three pages laying out the methodology for a computerized design process which allows the customer and his family members to shape the design of their house. Its basic purpose is to develop a basis for a new housing business rooted in the information-processing era.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

The Gatemaker Project 1997 to 2000

Other, Designed

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Greg Bryant, Olga Volchkova, Peter Gabriel

Sponsor:

Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems' co-founder

The Gatemaker project provides an enlightening lens through which to examine the interplay of ideas between Christopher Alexander and computing, over the last half-century. Interest in his work became intense by 1996, so his team secured funding for a research ...

References

Scientific Research

Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

Public Events

"The Aspen Summit" on the development for a new software design tool 01/03/1997 to 04/03/1997

Aspen, CO, U.S.A.

Conference, Professional Event

A meeting between the Center for Environmental Structure Computing, represented by Christopher Alexander, Greg Brian and John Seamster, and Sun Microsystems represented by its co-founder Bill Joy and Mike Clary. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the development ...