Architectural Lecture Series: The Growth of Order from Small Acts, as introduced and transcribed by Howard Davis

06/02/1974

Lecture Course, Lecture Transcript

Lecture given by Christopher Alexander in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley in 1974. Howard Davis transcribed anew the original lecture transcript, and added an introductory paragraph to it, for being included in a forthcoming book titled “Early and Unpublished Writings of Christpher Alexander – Thinking, Building, Writing”, to be published by Routledge and edited by Howard Davis.

Authors:

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

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Content of

Academic Course

Architectural Lecture Series: 6-Feb-1974 lecture 1974

University Program:

Architecture Lecture Series

Course type:

Lecture Course

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

The topic of the lecture was “The Growth of Order from Small Acts”.

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 ...