Arch. 207, Spring 1980 – Advanced Topics in Geometry & Special Problems: Different versions of the Centering Process

02/04/1980
Research Paper, Handout to Students

A compilation of fifty pages on the centering process approached through six different ways: 1) Definition of Centering Process, Fall 1979; 2) Example of Centering Process, Fall 1978, with shirt-tail design; 3) A Simplicity Seeking Process; 4) The Presence of a “Being” in the Thing Made; 5) The Childish Mind; 6) Existence of a Proces; the 1978 and 1979 papers are in depth explorations of the subject, while the remaining four are the beginning of some new ways at looking at the same phenomenon .

Authors:
Christopher Alexander, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.