The University of Oregon Student Union Project: Alternative Proposal for the Student Union

01/01/1970

Design Matters, Proposal Brief

Revised more detailed assessment of the problem at hand and a preliminary proposal of project development including size of areas to develop and amounts of money required, followed by illustrations of proposals.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Master Plan for the University of Oregon 1969 to 1971

Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Realized , Completed in 1971 and impletented

Client:

University of Oregon - Mr. Robert S. Harris, Dean of the School of Architecture and Chairman of the user planning committee

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by clients and C.E.S. Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Diagnosis and repair process

A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...

References

Scientific Research

Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...

Correspondence

The University of Oregon: Analyzing all corrections and observations made by the Union Planning Commitee of the University of Oregon, during the review of a proposal report of the project, submitted to them 01/01/1970

Project, Design Matters, Clarifications

Sender:

Nancy, Associated Students, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Murray Silverstein, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter