Lecture on “The Nature of Order”, given during Fall 1991

03/12/1991

Audio, Tape

Cassette tape of the twenty third Fall semester lecture by Christopher Alexander, on “Color and Inner Light”, part of a series of lectures on “The Nature of Order”; the duration of the lecture is about one hour and twelve minutes.

Created by:

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

Content of

Academic Course

Building Process Area of Emphasis: Series of lectures on "The Nature of Order" - Foundations of Architecture 1991

University Program:

Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture

Course type:

Lecture Course

Course number:

Arch. 160

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Yodan Rofe

Lecture course for both graduate and undergraduate students. Twenty-four lectures to determine the foundation of all architecture, both on a theoretical and practical level. The intent of the course was to define the basic structure needed by any environment, which ...

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...