Arch. 207, Spring 1980 – Advanced Topics in Geometry & Special Problems: Thoughts about good structures in design – Preliminary state of discussing processes leading to good structures

01/03/1980

Student Work, Paper

41-page paper discussing the underlying factors and elements, which account for a good structure and trying to establish if a process, a universal algorithm, can be determined, able of guiding the creative process.

Authors:

Ralf Weber, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Advanced Topics on Geometry - Special Problems 1980

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Seminar

Course number:

Arch. 207

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Artemis Anninou, Walt Holmes, Hiroshi Nanako, Hansjoachim Neis, Nili Portugali, Bob Randolph, Ralf Weber

On Unbroken Wholeness: eleven week seminar on the Centering Process and the Geometric Properties.

References

Published Books

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book One - The Phenomenon of Life 01/01/2002

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

“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 ...