Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: Audio recording

Christopher Alexander gave a talk before a large audience in the Graduate School of Design, the school from which he received his Ph.D. in architecture in 1963. He touched on his research on spatial unity and deep stucture, he elaborated ...

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 ...

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

19-page transcript of the Christopher Alexander lecture on “Architecture’s New Scientific Foundations”, a kind of progress report on the development of his ideas on the order of space as a deep phenomenon, on the importance of recognizing the deep structure ...

Twelve photographs used by Christopher Alexander in the lecture to illustrate examples of physical things which have deep structure, which he called ‘wholeness’. The examples he chose to show were all from traditional or historical societies, and were the following: ...

Pairs of photographs mostly of buildings, used by Christopher Alexander in the lecture, each one comparing side-by-side one contemporary building with a building from the past, in order to argue the point that the “works of our time simply do ...