Arch. 201, Winter 1981 – Introduction to Geometry: Draft text titled “Our Separation from the World”

Ten theoretical topics accompanied by ten separate design problems, each lasting one week; results of student’s work to be submitted weekly on a single 20×30 board. The calendar of topics as presented was: 1) Order; 2) Mirror of the Self; ...

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Christoper Alexander defined and described wholeness as an idea to view and shape space, and searched for ways to formulate and represent wholeness in precise terms, as a structure. He idenfied the entities with 'strength' give structure to what is ...

“The Phenomenon of Life”, the first volume of “The Nature of Order” series proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for ...