Go BackLecture on “The Nature of Order”, given during Fall 1991
17/10/1991Cassette tape of the fourteenth Fall semester lecture by Christopher Alexander on “Structure Preserving Transformations”, part of a series of lectures on "The Nature of Order"; the duration of the lecture is one hour and fifteen minutes.
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House for John and Mara Lighty
1981 to
1989
Terraced house built for a couple; the house consists of six building volumes, gracefully positioned on a wooded slope among white oak trees, and includes the living room - kitchen volume, the studio volume, the bedroom - library volume, a ...
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Eishin Campus - High School and College Complex
1982 to
1987
The project was envisioned to be a new combined High School and College Complex for the Eishin Gakuen Foundation, in Saitama prefecture, outside Tokyo, and was designed as such. The campus was to be the working environment of a population ...
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Fort Mason Bench
1984
A three-tiered masonry public bench and centerpiece, on the Fort Mason pier, overlooking Alcatraz Island. It was built within three weeks as part of the "Spirit in Design" workshop, beginning on 24-Mar-1984 following an announcement in "CoEvolution Quarterly". The main intent ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Blue and white color for exterior walls
1984
Christopher Alexander started to work on the color of the building from the early stages of its construction, when the concrete formwork was completed. He started mixing and testing different blues on the Martinez site to get the right wall ...
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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Lacework concrete trusses with curved members shot in the air
1988
The dining hall of Julian street inn is the higher building volume of the complex; the hall, a sigle room, 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, was intended to seat about 100 people. When the shape of the volume ...