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

29/10/1991

Audio, Tape

Cassette tape of the seventeenth Fall semester lecture by Yodan Rofe on “General Process of Creating Centers, Always Making Larger Wholes and Structure Preserving Transformations”, part of a series of lectures on “The Nature of Order”; the duration of the lecture is about one hour.

Created by:

Yodan Rofe, 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

The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...