Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 5

11/10/1967

Lecture Course, Lecture Transcript

Discusses the evolution of a pattern language over time. Examples are given and comparisons made to the evolution of organisms. Stocks of patterns and pattern languages are discussed as the central process for controlling out environment, improving the environment by creating new patterns or evolving current pattern languages.

Authors:

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

Content of

Academic Course

Lecture course during the Fall Quarter, the second year of Alexander's teaching as an Associate professor in the Department of Architecture 1967

University Program:

Bachelor of Architecture

Course type:

Lecture Course

Course number:

ED. 190

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Roland Walkey, Francis Duffy, John Torrey

A series of twenty four lectures starting with organic wholeness, its relatioship to environmental structure, the identification of the building blocks of this structure and their recognition as a system with generative features; and then proceeding to the main body ...

References

Scientific Research

Theory of Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Patterns and Pattern Languages

In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...

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