CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
CURRICULUM VITAE
CONTENTS
| I. | BACKGROUND,
EDUCATION AND HONORS |
| II. | BUILDINGS
AND WORKS OF ART |
| III. | PUBLISHED
BOOKS |
| IV. | PLANS
AND DESIGN PROJECTS |
| V. | ARTICLES,
ESSAYS AND PAPERS |
| VI. | BOOKS,
PAPERS AND ARTICLES ABOUT ALEXANDER AND HIS WORK BY OTHER AUTHORS |
| VII. | TELEVISION,
FILM AND RADIO BROADCASTS |
| VIII. | EXHIBITS |
| IX. | CONSULTANT
POSITIONS HELD |
I.
BACKGROUND, EDUCATION AND HONORS
BACKGROUND
Born October 4, 1936, Vienna; British citizen; married to Pamela, two children, Lily and Sophie.
Licensed
Architect
Licensed General Contractor
ADDRESS
2701
Shasta Road, Berkeley, California, 94708
EDUCATION
PhD Architecture, Harvard. MA with honors, Mathematics,
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA Architecture, Trinity College, Cambridge.
School: Oundle School, England (classical education, then natural sciences).
BIOGRAPHY
Stephen Grabow,
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: THE EVOLUTION OF A NEW PARADIGM IN ARCHITECTURE, Routledge
Kegan Paul, London, 1983.
Japanese translation, published
1989.
FILM BIOGRAPHIES
PLACES FOR THE SOUL: THE
ARCHITECTURE OF CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, Director, Ruth Landy, Producer, Cinema
Consultants, San Francisco, 1990.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, Director, Makoto Ozawa, NHK, Japan National
Broadcasting Company, Tokyo, June 1992.
HONORS AND POSITIONS
| 1963-1994 |
Professor of
Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of California,
Berkeley. |
| 1967-1994 | President,
Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley,
California. |
| 1990-1994 | Trustee, Prince of
Wales's Institute for Architecture. |
| 1994 | The Seaside Prize, for contributions of architecture. |
| 1992 | Louis
Kahn Memorial Lecturer, Philadelphia. |
| 1987 | Distinguished
Professor Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture. |
| 1987 | Silver
medal, Saitama prefecture, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1985 | Best
building in Japan Award, by the Japan Institute of Architects. |
| 1980 | Member
of the Swedish Royal Academy. |
| 1972 | The Research Gold Medal
of the American Institute of Architects. |
| 1965 | Research Professor in the Humanities, University
of California, Berkeley. |
| 1965 | Visiting Fellow,
Rockefeller Foundation, Villa Serbelloni, Italy. |
| 1961-3 | Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University. |
| 1954-8 | Top
Open Scholar, Physics and Chemistry, Trinity College, Cambridge. |
II.
BUILDINGS AND WORKS OF ART
WEST DEAN COLLEGE GARDENS VISITOR'S CENTRE, West Sussex, United Kingdom, 1994-6.
BACK OF THE MOON COMMUNITY, Austin, Texas. Three private houses on Lake Travis, 1994-5.
PLAN FOR CHIKUSADAI, High density low rise housing for 800
families, Hazama area and Kusunoki area, Nagoya, JAPAN. 1992.
AGATE STREET DORMITORY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Four buildings containing
twenty apartments for student families, Eugene, Oregon, 1991-3.
THE SULLIVAN HOUSE. House for Steve and Susie
Sullivan, Concrete, tile, redwood, fruitwood, plaster, tile and hand made
metal detailed interiors. Berkeley, California, 1992.
THE UPHAM
HOUSE, House for Christopher Upham and Stephanie Upham, poured concrete,
marble floors, hand cast plaster, cast friezes, hand-made lily tiles.
Berkeley, California, 1992.
THE MARY ROSE MUSEUM, Museum for
Henry VIII's ship, The Mary Rose, Portsmouth, England. The ship sank in 1547,
was raised in 1982, and is now preserved in dry dock next to HMS Victory, in
the new Mary Rose Museum, 1991. Work done for the Mary Rose
Trust, President, His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales. See references in
later sections.
THE SHIRATORI PLAN, High density low rise
housing for
500 families, Nagoya, JAPAN. Widely publicized in the
Japanese press, and widely discussed in Japan. See other sections of this
document. 1990-1.
STUDENT HOUSING FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Buildings and master plan for 300 units of student housing, Eugene, Oregon,
1991-3.
EXHIBITION GALLERIES: ANCIENT COLOR AND
GEOMETRY, Four gallery reconstruction and installation in the De Young
Museum, San Francisco, including interior construction, color, lighting, and
installation and hanging of the carpets, 1990.
THE JULIAN
STREET INN, SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, (with Gary Black,
Eleni Coromvli), Concrete columns, open lacework trusses, hand made column
capitals, hand painted tile exterior, tiles fountain with lions head,
dormitories with individual sleeping alcoves, tile roofs, gardens and
courtyards, 1990.
HOUSE FOR GAIL KAISER AND MARK ANDERTON,
Palo Alto, California, 1991.
LIGHTY HOUSE, BERRYESSA,
CALIFORNIA, for John and Mara Lighty, 1990.
FIVE STORY
APARTMENT BUILDING, for Emoto family, ‘Tokyo, Japan, (with Hajo Neis),
1988.
KING HOUSE, SNOWMASS, COLORADO, for Stark and Geni King,
1988.
MEDLOCK-GRAHAM HOUSE, WHIDBEY ISLAND, SEATTLE, for Ann
Medlock and John Graham, 1988.
SECOND SALA HOUSE, ALBANY,
CALIFORNIA, for Andre and Anna Sala, 1988.
RED, YELLOW AND
SALMON FLOOR WITH LEOPARDS, Interior of second Sala House, 1988.
POTASH-MCCABE
HOUSE, SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA, for Dan Potash and Maureen McCabe,
1988.
YELLOW BLOSSOMS, Oil painting, 1988.
THE
STRIPED PURPLE SKIRT, Oil painting, 1988.
BLUE ARCHAIC BIRD,
shaped tile fragments hand-molded and glazed, set in plaster, 1988.
LEOPARD
MOLDS, Yellow painted wooden molds for manufacture of porcelain leopards,
1988.
4500 TILES FOR SAN JOSE SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS, grey
tiles on reddish mexican body, hand painted and glazed, 1988.
COLLEGE
BUILDINGS, Iruma-shi, Japan, Two major buildings with classrooms and arcades,
exterior plaster and interior terrazzo work, 1987.
SAN ANSELMO
KITCHEN, Hand painted room, painted in red, yellow, yellow-green, green and
blue, executed in cut paper and varnished gouache, (with Stephen Duff and
Kleoniki Tsotropoulou), 1987.
BED ALCOVES AND CURTAINS, wood,
carving, blue enamel, and yellow cotton fabric, 1987.
HIGH
SCHOOL MAIN STREET, FENCES, GATES, TERRACES AND LANDSCAPE, for New Eishin
University, Tokyo, Japan, (with Hajo Neis), 1986.
VIEW OF
MOUNTAIN VIEW CIVIC CENTER, Painting in pen, ink and gouache, 1986.
FIRST
VIEW OF MOUNTAIN VIEW CIVIC CENTER, Painting in pen, ink and gouache,
1986.
FLAT RED DESK, wood, automobile enamel, and formica,
(with Artemis Anninou and Gary Black), 1986.
UPRIGHT RED DESK,
wood, automobile lacquer, and leather, (with Artemis Anninou and Gary Black),
1986.
‘DARK BLUE SOFA, wood, corduroy, springs from plastering
lath and enamel, (with Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, and Randy Schmidt),
1986.
PIN BOARD WITH JAPANESE SILK, enamelled wood, white and
pale blue flowered silk (with Artemis Anninou, Eleni Coromvli and Gary Black),
1986.
BLACK ROLLING TABLE WITH DRAWERS, black lucite and brass,
(with Gary Black and Artemis Anninou), 1986.
GREEN WORK TABLE, wood,
formica, and varnish (with Gary Black), 1985.
WHITE CABINET,
wood and enamel, 1985.
BLACK ROLLING TABLE, black lucite and
brass, (with Gary Black and Artemis Anninou), 1985.
WHITE
BOOKCASE, wood and enamel, 1985.
THICK WALLS, various thick
walls, cabinets and wall thicknesses, wood and enamel, 1985-6.
GREAT
HALL OF NEW EISHIN UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN. BLACK, RED, PURPLE AND PALE GREEN
INTERIOR PLASTERWORK. Hand etched plasterwork for columns and beams, screen,
walls and ceilings for interior of great hall, 40,000 square feet of surface,
in black, grey, red, pale green, brown and purplish grey, 1985-6.
HEAVY
TIMBER CARPENTRY WORKSHOP. Massive timber building with 12x12 columns and 8x14
beams and trusses, 800 sf, all wood, Martinez, California, (with Gary Black),
1985
HAND-BUILT OFFICE FURNITURE. 2000 square feet of office
furniture for clothing factory, Sweet Potatoes Factory, Berkeley, California
(with Artemis Anninou and Gary Black), 1985.
BLUE HORSE WITH
YELLOW STARS. Painted wood carving, 1985.
FOUR PAINTINGS. Blue
grey and red room. Yellow, green and blue room. Lilac, red, blue and pale
yellow room. Red, black and grey room, 1985.
THE NEW EISHIN
UNIVERSITY
THIRTY FIVE BUILDINGS, total cost approx.$10,000,000, area
about 100,000 square feet, Iruma shi, Tokyo, (with Hajo Neis, Gary Black,
Ingrid King and others), 1985.
TWO SWIMMING POOLS AND HOUSE
EXTENSION, with hand worked marble pools, in yellow, green and white, trellis
and marble walkways, for George Sarlo, Sonoma, California, 1985.
MYSTICAL
AND ROMANTIC SONGS, Concert poster for recital of songs by Schubert,
Vaughan-Williams, Poulenc, ‘Satie and Ravel, Pamela Patrick soprano, Old First
concert series, 1985.
HAND-PAINTED TILES, red, green,
yellow,white, turquoise. 400 hand-painted tiles for a fireplace for Mary Ann
Reese, 1985.
HAND-PAINTED TILES, light green and dark green
tiles, 100 handpainted tiles for a floor, Martinez California, 1985.
CONCRETE
AND MARBLE BENCH AND TABLE, Fort Mason, San Francisco, sponsored by Whole
Earth catalogue, Uncommon Courtesy and Coevolution Quarterly, clients Irmine
Steltzner and Stewart Brand, 1984.
MULTICOLORED FLAGS FOR FRESNO
FARMERS MARKET, 48 flags with crosses and other designs, in a variety of
colors including red, crimson, green, white, blue, light blue, yellow, and dark green, 1984.
MARTINEZ
HOUSE, Experimental gunite all-concrete house with wooden roof, blue and pale
green exterior, Martinez, California, 1200 square feet, ceilings, walls,
columns, alcoves, roofs and floors, all made by experimental methods,
1978-84.
RED, YELLOW AND BLUE MARBLE FLOOR, terrazzo floor,
with styrofoam lost form technique, polished marble with squares, diamonds and
crosses, 400 square feet, Martinez, California, 1984.
FRESNO
FARMERS MARKET, 6000 square foot building. Redwood arched trusses, concrete
columns. Floor of grey concrete with blue concrete ornaments, let into the
slab, forming an endless pattern. For Richard Erganian, Fresno, California,
(with Carl Lindberg, Jonathan Fefferman), 1983.
HOUSE FOR MR
AND MRS ANDRE SALA, Three story post and beam house, with red and grey
concrete exterior wall, terraces and gardens, and handpainted interiors,
Albany, California, (with Gary Black), 1983.
TERRACED HOUSE ON
FOUR LEVELS, with seven buildings, Lake Berryessa, California, for John and
Mara Lighty, post and beam construction, 1982.
MULTICOLORED
BLUE TILES, Thirty-five multi-colored diamond shaped tiles, hand-drawn and
painted, set into foundation of the Berryessa house, 1982.
MUSIC
CABINET, blue painted wooden music cabinet for Pamela Alexander, 1981.
THE
LINZ CAFE, wooden building, yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2500
square feet, post and beam construction, handpainted interiors in green,
apricot, yellow, red and white. Building completed in Linz, Austria,
1980.
CHAIRS, STOOLS AND TABLES for the Linz Cafe, Linz,
Austria, 1980.
‘
PAINTINGS ON WOOD, White cross on green field,
Blue gateway, Green yellow and red alcove, Three colored square, Magenta and
violet arches, 1980.
HANDPAINTED TILES, White diamonds on black
ground, Green spiral, Yellow arabesque, and forty five others, 1980.
MARTINEZ
WORKSHOP, Experimental gunite all-concrete workshop with concrete vaulted
roof, blue and white exterior, Martinez, California, 200 square feet,
ceilings, walls, columns, alcoves, roofs and floors, all made by experimental
methods, 1978-80.
EXPERIMENTS IN SPRAYED CONCRETE, Vaults,
walls, columns, floors, beams, arches, in concrete over steel armature,
University of California, Berkeley, 1978.
THE MEXICALI PROJECT,
Neighborhood of low cost experimental houses, shop, workshops, office, five
apartments, and communal dining facilities, Total area 8000 square feet,
Mexicali, Mexico, 1976.
BLOCK PRODUCTION FACTORY, factory for
producing soil-cement interlocking blocks. Design, erection and management,
Mexicali, Mexico, 1975-76.
TILES AND PAINTINGS,
multicolored, various experimental works, 1975-78.
ETNA STREET
COTTAGE, Experimental building project: two-story building built of
featherweight concrete, vaults, columns, beams, all built of featherweight
concrete, with Walter Wendler, Donald Corner, and others, 1974.
FACTORY
LUNCH ROOM, Construction of beams, walls, benches, tables, and garden, for
Sierra Designs Factory, Berkeley, California, 1975.
COMMUNITY
MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, Modesto, California (with Murray Silverstein and Nacht
and Lewis, Sacramento), for Stanislaus County, California, Chief of
Psychiatry, 20,000 square feet, $1.5 million, client Dr. Hewitt Ryan, 1972.
FOURTEEN LOW COST HOUSES, Low income prototype houses, Lima,
Peru, (with Sara Ishikawa and others), 1971.
VILLAGE SCHOOL,
Brick vaults and arches, with filled tile domed vaults. Bavra, Gujarat, India,
1962, (with Janet Johnson).
III.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
THE MARY ROSE MUSEUM, with Gary Black, Miyoko Tsutsui, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.
A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART: THE COLOR AND
GEOMETRY OF VERY EARLY TURKISH CARPETS, Oxford University Press, New York,
1993.
Japanese Translation of A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN,
Kajima Publishing, Tokyo, 1989.
A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN,
with Hajo Neis, Artemis Anninou, Ingrid King, Oxford University Press, New
York, 1985.
THE NATURE OF ORDER, Oxford University
Press, New York, in preparation.
SKETCHES OF A NEW
ARCHITECTURE, Oxford University Press, New York, in preparation.
BATTLE:
THE STORY OF A HISTORIC CLASH BETWEEN WORLD SYSTEM A AND WORLD SYSTEM B, with
Hajo Neis, Gary Black and Ingrid King, Oxford University Press, New York, in
preparation.
THE PRODUCTION OF HOUSES, with Howard Davis, Julio
Martinez, Don Corner, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985.
A
PATTERN LANGUAGE, Japanese translation, Kajima Institute Publishing Co., Ltd.,
1984.
THE NATURE OF ORDER, VERSION 2, unpublished manuscript,
1200 pages, 1982.
A PATTERN LANGUAGE, Dutch translation,
1982.
THE LINZ CAFE, Oxford University Press, New York,
1981.
THE TIMELESS WAY OF BUILDING, Spanish translation,
Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona, 1981.
REBIRTH OF THE
INNER CITY; THE NORTH OMAHA PLAN, with Howard Davis, Center for Environmental
Structure, Berkeley, California, 1981.
A PATTERN
LANGUAGE, Spanish translation, Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona,
1980.
THE OREGON EXPERIMENT, Spanish translation, Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona,
1980.
GEOMETRY, unpublished manuscript, early manuscript
‘version of THE NATURE OF ORDER, Berkeley, 1981.
THE TIMELESS
WAY OF BUILDING, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979.
THE
ONE, unpublished manuscript, early manuscript version of THE NATURE OF ORDER,
Berkeley, 1977.
A PATTERN LANGUAGE, with S. Ishikawa, M.
Silverstein, M. Jacobson, I. Fiksdahl-King, S. Angel, Oxford University
Press, New York, 1977.
THE OREGON EXPERIMENT, Italian
translation, Officina Edizioni, Rome,
1977.
THE OREGON EXPERIMENT, Japanese translation, Kajima
Institute Publishing Co., Ltd., 1977.
THE OREGON EXPERIMENT,
French translation, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1976.
THE OREGON
EXPERIMENT, Oxford University Press, 1975.
PEOPLE REBUILDING
BERKELEY: THE SELF-CREATING LIFE OF NEIGHBORHOODS, with Howard Davis and
Halim Abdelhalim, Center for Environmental Structure, 1975. Reprinted by New
Communities Development Group, Berkeley, California, 1985.
COMMUNITY
AND PRIVACY (with Serge Chermayeff), German translation, Florian Kupferberg
Verlag, Mainz, 1972.
LA ESTUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE,
Barcelona, 1971.
NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM, French
translation, Dunod, Paris, 1971.
A HUMAN CITY (with Ronald
Walkey, Murray Silverstein, and others), Kajima Publishing Company, Tokyo,
1970.
NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM, Spanish translation,
Ediciones Infinito, Buenos Aires, 1969.
TRES ASPECTOS DE
MATEMATICA Y DISEQNO, Tusquets Editor, Barcelona, 1969.
HOUSES
GENERATED BY PATTERNS (with Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin
and Shlomo Angel), Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California,
1969.
A PATTERN LANGUAGE WHICH GENERATES MULTI-SERVICE
CENTERS (with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein), Center for Environmental
Structure, Berkeley, California, 1968.
‘
SYSTEMS GENERATING
SYSTEMS, Booklet, published by Inland Steel, 1967.
NOTES ON
THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM, Italian translation, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1967.
COMMUNITY AND PRIVACY (with Serge Chermayeff), Spanish
translation, Ediciones Nueva Vision, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967.
COMMUNITY
AND PRIVACY (with Serge Chermayeff), Japanese translation, Kajima Institute
Publishing Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1966.
COMMUNITY AND
PRIVACY (with Serge Chermayeff), Italian translation, Il Saggiatore, Milano,
1965.
NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM, Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964.
COMMUNITY AND PRIVACY
(with Serge Chermayeff), Doubleday, New York, 1963.
IV.
PLANS AND DESIGN PROJECTS
The Mary Rose Museum, design for museum to house
the excavated ship, Mary Rose, including workshops and conservation areas,
educational and display exhibits, Portsmouth, England, 1991.
House
reconstruction design, and construction management for Steve and Susie
Sullivan, Berkeley, California, 1990-1.
The Shiratori Plan,
preliminary design for low-rise, high-density housing. An integrated
neighborhood plan for 500 families, at a density of 80 families per acre, for
the City of Nagoya, Japan, 1990.
Design for West Coast retail
stores for Hearthsong, Inc., Sebastopol, California, makers of children' toys.
Designing stores and providing generic language for the design of the chain,
1990.
House reconstruction design, and construction management
for Gail Kaiser and Mark Anderton, Palo Alto, California, 1989-1990.
Site
plan and preliminary design for Aspen Village, integrated development of
residential and commercial use in Aspen, Colorado, 1990.
House
design for Roger and Karuna Hodgson, Nevada City, California, 1990.
Design
for planned development of low cost housing community of 65 houses, utilizing
innovative financing to avoid up-front
financing to avoid high mortgage costs, Podunk, New York, 1990.
Housing
plan for low income housing with Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.
Innovative process to provide user participation. Planning, design and
construction management process, with pilot programs in California,
1989-1990.
Design for International Forum Conference Center,
Tokyo, Japan. Invited competition entry for a complex of conference halls,
auditoria, exhibition halls, and other public facilities, in downtown Tokyo,
total floor area 1,400,000 square feet, 1989.
House design for
Peter and Jeannie Stonestrom, Palo Alto, California, 1990.
Site
plan and construction process for neighborhood of sixty houses, on 90 acres,
to become a model of ecological development, in which woods, lake, and greens
are to be integrated with houses, designed and built in such a way as to
avoid damaging the natural landscape, Mendham Township, New Jersey,
1989.
Design for teaching Buddhist monastery for 300 monks, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1988.
High-Density Mass-Housing (with Ingrid
King and Eleni Coromvli), University of California and Center for
Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California, 43 pages, June 1988.
Zoning
Ordinance for Pasadena, California, for City of Pasadena, with Dan Solomon and
others), 1988.
Design for Pasadena Waldorf School, Altadena,
California. Master plan, and building plans, for ten buildings, including
Assembly building, classroom buildings, kindergarten and others. 1988.
House
design for low-cost house in heavy timber framing, Bob and Laura Viale,
Orinda, California, 1986
Civic Center design for Mountain View,
California. Invited competition entry for City Hall, offices, Community
theater, and council chamber, with grand plaza, and underground parking,
1986
The Oregon bench: Design and full size models for for
multi-colored glazed tile bench, with hand-glazed tile, and hand-drawn
flowers and wave designs, 1986
Zoning plan revision for
Hopedale, Massachusetts, with performance-based criteria, and variable density
housing, 1985.
House design for Anne Medlock and John Graham,
Whidbey Island, Seattle, Washington, 1985.
House design for Al
and Katherine Haimson, Woodside, California, 1985.
New system
of office furniture (with Artemis Anninou and Gary Black) in consultation with
John Rheinfrank of Richardson/Smith 1985.
Design for an outdoor
pavilion, heavy timber construction with multicolored lacquer work and
painting. Omega Institute, New York, 1985.
Neighborhood plan
for 150 low cost houses, Sao Carlos, Brazil, 1984-1985.
House
design for John and Terry Naylor, Orinda, California. Three story house,
50'x18', with swimming pool, and variety of outbuildings, on a one hundred
acre ranch, 1984.
Plans and designs for Moshav Shorashim, master
plan, thirty houses, workshops kindergarten, shops, and public buildings,
Galilee, Israel, 1983.
Comprehensive Master plan pattern
language for the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, 1982.
Designs
and plans for New Eishin school, Tokyo, Japan, together with university
buildings, and library and student center to be built in second phase of
construction. Japan, 1982-1985.
Mansion design for Gary and
Margarita Crawford estate, Stinson Beach, California, stone house, with large
rooms, and complex detail, terraces, outbuildings, landscaping,
1982-1983.
House design for Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey Anderson,
Bodega Bay, California, 1982.
Sapporo Apartment building, 10
story shops and apartments for 43 families, for Mrs. Keiko Inoue, Sapporo, Japan, (with Ingrid King), 1982.
Layout
and design of twenty houses, all different, each one laid out in conjunction
with the family, Moshav Shorashim, Galilee, Israel, (with Artemis Anninou),
1982.
House design for Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Card, Portola Valley,
California, Two stories, with outbuildings, terraces and gardens,
1981.
Master plan for Guasare New Town, Maracaibo, Venezuela,
Process for layout of neighborhoods, layout of houses by families, and
management of construction, 1981.
Master plan for the Community
of North Omaha, North Omaha Community Development Committee, Omaha, Nebraska,
1981.
Tarrytown restaurant, design for restaurant, cafes, bars
and entertainment, on the Hudson River, 25,000 square feet, for Robert Schwartz,
1980.
Design for extension to Tarrytown Conference Center,
Tarrytown, N.Y., for Robert Schwartz, 1980.
Master plan for
Segev H, with Amos Gitai, Center for Environmental Structure, 1979.
Plans
for an $8000 migrant workers house, Department of Migrant Services, State of
California, 1977.
Rockridge plaza, design for shops and
apartments, Oakland, California, (with Ingrid King), 1975.
Master
Plan and preliminary design for Town Square, Walnut Creek, (with Ingrid King),
200,000 square feet of commercial space, to be built incrementally, by Miller
and Facchini, Walnut Creek, 1974.
Tourist Development Project
for Malaga, Spain, on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Tourism. 1,000,000
square feet, to be built over a ten-year period, (with Halim Abdelhalim,
Walter Wendler, Ingrid King, Donald Corner, and Howard Davis), 1974.
User
designed apartment building, 27 families, St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris.
Schematic design, program, and construction schedule with Ingrid King and
Walter Wendler, 1974.
Master Plan for Tourist Resort,
Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, with Ingrid King, Halim Abdelhalim, and Lisa
Heschong, 1973.
Master planning process for the town of Marsta,
Sweden. Fourteen panels, 27"x 40", English and Swedish, (with Max
Jacobson and Ingrid King), 1972.
Furniture, design and
construction, various experimental pieces, 1970-78.
Exhibit for
1970 World's Fair, Eighty-panel exhibit for the 1970 Osaka World's Fair,
Japanese Pavilion, entitled "A Human City," with Ronald Walkey and
others, 1970.
Program and design for Berkeley City Hall Complex,
for the City of Berkeley, (with Ronald Walkey and Barbara Schreiner),
1970.
Design for community of 1500 houses for Lima, Peru (with
Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin and Shlomo Angel), invited
competition entry, United Nations, First prize by minority report,
1969.
Master plan for the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon,
chief client Robert Harris, 1969.
Multi Service Center, Hunts
Point, Bronx, New York (with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein and Gruzen
and Partners), 1968-73.
Courtyard house plans, Newhaven,
Connecticut, (with Serge Chermayeff), 1963-64.
Schematic design
of Rapid Transit Stations for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (with Van King
and Sara Ishikawa), for Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, San Francisco,
1964.
Program for Urban housing, Arthur D. Little, San
Francisco, 1963.
Master plan for village of Bavra, Gujarat,
India, 1962.
V.
ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND PAPERS
"Perspectives: Manifesto 1991,"
PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE, July 1991, pp. 108-112.
"A New
Way of Looking," HALI, Issue 56, April 1991, pp. 114-125.
"The
Architect Has No Clothes," Letter to the Editor, Progressive
Architecture, April 1990, p. 11.
"Low-Rise High-Density
Housing in Nagoya," Lead Editorial in ASAHI SHIMBUN (Japan's leading
newspaper), March 23, 1990.
"A Watershed in the History of
Architecture," METROPOLITAN HOME, December 1989, Vol. XXI, No. 12, p.
40, continued p. 46. Review of A VISION OF BRITAIN, by H.R.H. Prince Charles,
Prince of Wales.
"Mountain View Civic Center Competition
Design," with Hajo Neis, Ingrid King, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, A+U,
September 1989, No. 228, p. 21-46.
"Double Exposure,"
excerpt from A PATTERN LANGUAGE, Oxford University Press, New York, 1977,
reprinted in HARROWSMITH, July/August 1989, Vol. XIV:2, No. 86, p.
72-73.
"From 'The Nature of Order'," in ZYZZYVA, Vol.
V, No. 1, Spring 1989.
"Architecture Operating Within a
World View," in COMPLEXITIES OF THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT: A CULTURAL AND
TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, Karl Vak, editor, Proceedings from the Discoveries
1987 Symposium, Vienna, Austria, Europa Verlag Gsmblt Wien, Vienna, 1988, p.
129-133.
"High-Density Mass-Housing," with Eleni
Coromvli and Ingrid King, Department of Architecture, University of
California, Berkeley, and Center for Environmental Structure, June
1988.
"The End of Post-Modernism," CONCRETE, Annabelle
Ison and Joseph Smooke, Editors, Spring 1988, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp.
23-25.
"A City of Gardens," Zoning ordinance for
multi-family housing, with Dan Solomon et al, 1988.
"Toward
a Personal Workplace," with Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, and John
Rheinfrank, ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, Mid-September issue, 1987, pp.
130-141.
"The Style of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay
on Technology, Geometry and Style," in PRECIS 6, The Journal of the
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation, 1987, pp. 128-137.
"Cleaning House," A
letter to the Editor, IMAGE MAGAZINE, in The San Francisco Examiner, June 22,
1986, p. 4-5.
"Das Machen von Gebauden: Eishin College -
Eishin High School bei Tokio," introduction by Christopher Alexander,
BAUMEISTER, February 1986, p. 24. Cover photograph.
"Battle:
The History of a Crucial Clash between World-System A and World-System B -
Construction of the New Eishin Campus," with Hajo Neis, Gary Black and
Ingrid King, THE JAPAN ARCHITECT, August 1985, Vol. 60, No. 8, pp. 15-35
(Cover photograph).
"Mini-Neighborhoods - High Quality
Houses Which the Average Family Can Afford," unpublished paper, Center
For Environmental Structure, March 1985.
"Less Is Not More
When it Comes to Porches," an excerpt from A PATTERN LANGUAGE reprinted
in UTNE READER, Minneapolis, June/July 1985, No. 10, p. 123.
"Eine
Pattern Language - Auszuge aus DIE ZEITLOSE ART ZU BAUEN und EINE PATTERN
LANGUAGE," ARCH+, March 1984, Vol. 73, pp. 14-37. Excerpts from A
TIMELESS WAY OF BUILDING, Oxford University Press, 1979 and A PATTERN
LANGUAGE, Oxford University Press, 1977.
"The Atoms of
Environmental Structure," with Barry Poyner, in DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN
METHODOLOGY, editor Nigel Cross, 1984, pp. 123-133.
"Sketches
of a New Architecture," in ARCHITECTURE IN AN AGE OF SKEPTICISM, compiled
by Denys Lasdun, London 1984, pp. 8-27.
Japanese Translation of
A PATTERN LANGUAGE, Kajima Institute Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1984.
"Linz
Cafe," MAGASIN TESSIN, Lund, 2/3 1984, pp. 106-121.
"Mexicali
Revisited," PLACES, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer 1984,
pp. 76-77.
"The Production of Houses," with Howard
Davis, Julio Martinez, Don Corner, THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE, COLUMNS,
Vol. 1, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., New York, 1984, pp. 123-131. An
excerpt from THE PRODUCTION OF HOUSES, Oxford University Press, New York,
1985.
"Discord Over Harmony in Architecture: The
Eisenman/Alexander Debate," (partial transcript of debate with Peter
Eisenman), in HGSD NEWS, editor Yvonne V. Chabrier, May-June, 1983, Vol. 11,
No. 5, pp. 12-17. Also published in 40 LOTUS INTERNATIONAL, 1983, IV, pp.
60-68; ARCH+, March 1984, Vol. 73, pp. 70-73; Japanese translation in A+U
ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, editor Toshio Nakamura, September 1984, No. 168,
pp. 19-28.
"Linz Cafe: The Architect's Evaluation," 40 LOTUS INTERNATIONAL, IV, 1983, PP. 45-59. An excerpt from THE LINZ CAFE/
DAS LINZ CAFE, Oxford University Press and Locker Verlag, New York-Vienna,
1981.
"Notes on Pattern Language in the Office,"
OFFICE FURNITURE, Vol. II of ALBUM, editor Mario Bellini, 1983, pp.
97-101.
"Libertarian Architecture," NOMOS: STUDIES IN
SPONTANEOUS ORDER, Autumn, 1983, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 13-14. An excerpt from A
PATTERN LANGUAGE, Oxford University Press, 1977.
"Wholeness
in the Structure of the City," with Artemis Anninou and Hansjoachim Neis,
in ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE, 16, 1982, pp. 124-129.
"The San
Francisco Waterfront Project," with Artemis Anninou and Hansjoachim Neis,
in ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE, 16, 1982, pp. 159-167.
"Rules
for House Layout," CES, 55 pages, Definition of process for layout of
houses in Moshav Shorashim, 1982.
"Housing for
Guasare," CES, 57 pages, Definition of process and physical layout for
the housing production in Guasare, September 1982.
Excerpts
from A PATTERN LANGUAGE, in TARRYTOWN LETTER, August 1981, pp. 1-3.
"Beyond
Humanism," Christopher Alexander interviewed by Howard Davis, JOURNAL OF
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Vol. 35, No. 1, Fall 1981, pp. 18-24.
"Art
and Design for the 21st Century," in DESIGN IS UNSIGHTBAR, edited
Liesbeth Waecheter Bohm, Locker Verlag, Vienna 1980, pp. 101-110.
"The
Progress of My Work 1958-1980," ibid, pp. 385-394.
"Notes
on the Design of the Linz Cafe," ibid, pp. 664-667.
"The
Timeless Quality of Things," ibid, pp. 111-114.
"The
Linz Cafe," ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 3/4, 1980, pp. 48-49.
"Organic
Design," editorial in RAIN, August/Sept. 1980, pp. 8-9.
‘
"Master
Plan for Segev H," with Amos Gitai, Center for Environmental Structure,
Berkeley, 1979.
Special edition of ESPACIOS CEPA, "el
estructuralismo de Christopher Alexander," Argentina, 1977, No. 6.
"The
Architect Builder: Toward Changing the Conception of What an Architect
Is," SAN FRANCISCO BAY ARCHITECT'S REVIEW, September 1977, No. 4, p.
4.
"Value in Design: A Dialogue," with J.P. Protzen,
CONCRETE, November 1, 1977, Vol. 1, No. 6, beginning pp. 1. Also published in
DESIGN STUDIES, U.K., July 1980, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 291-298.
"Value: A Reply to Protzen," CONCRETE, November 15, 1977, Vol. 1, No. 8,
beginning pp. 1.
"Remodeling the Ben Lomond: The Need for a
Ben Lomond Precinct." A report prepared for the Weber County Commission,
Ogden, Utah, by CES, December 15, 1977.
"La Regression
Californienne ou la Reification du Myth Christopher Alexander, une
Conference," ARCHITECTURE MOUVEMENT CONTINUITE, France, March 1976, No.
38, pp. 76-77.
"The Architect Builder," John Lawrence
Memorial lecture, University of Tulane, 1976.
"The New
Apartment Building," with Ingrid King and Walter Wendler, Center for
Environmental Structure, 1975.
"Tourism in Andalusia: Making Buildings and Communities Which Really Live," with Halim
Abdelhalim, Walter Wendler, and others. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, January 1975,
Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 33-37.
"The Grass Roots Housing
Process," with Halim Abdelhalim and others, Center for Environmental
Structure, Berkeley, 1975.
"Timeless Way of
Building," A+U, Kanna Hirata, editor, March 1975, No. 51, pp.
49-60.
"The Growth of Order from Small Acts," Center
for Environmental Structure, working paper, 1975.
"A Conjectured Mapping Density Theorem," unpublished working paper,
Berkeley, California, 1975.
"A Collection of Patterns which
Generate Multi-Service Centers," with Sara Ishikawa and Murray
Silverstein. Summary of book in Declan and Margrit Kennedy, ARCHITECT'S YEAR
BOOK -- THE INNER CITY, Vol. 14, London: 1974, pp. 141-180.
"The
Walnut Creek Project," with others, Center for ‘Environmental Structure,
Berkeley, 1974.
"The Economics, Politics and Implementation
of the Pattern Language," working paper of the Royal Institute of Technology, School or Architecture, Department
of Design Methods, Stockholm, 1973.
"The Timeless Way of
Building: An Early Version." Published in Lang, Burnette and Vachon,
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 1973.
"Proposition Pour
un Nouveau Type de Logements Collectifs," in LA POLITIQUE DES MODELES ET
SON RETENTISSEMENT SUR L'INNOVATION DANS LE LOGEMENT SOCIAL, F. Choay and J.
Riguet, ed., May 1974-May 1975, pp. 132-172.
Interview with
Maria Luisa Racionero, FUNCION DE LA ARQUITECTURA MODERNA, Salvat editores,
s.a., Barcelona, 1973, pp. 8-21, continued 64-73. Also in ASPECTOS DE LA VIDA
NUEVA, Barcelona, 1975.
"The Invention of a Human and
Organic Building System," (with Max Jacobson), in Edward Allen,
SHIRT-SLEEVE SESSION ON RESPONSIVE HOUSEBUILDING TECHNOLOGIES, MIT, 1972, pp. 33-51.
"An Attempt to Derive the Nature of a Human Building
System from First Principles," in Edward Allen, SHIRT-SLEEVE SESSION ON
RESPONSIVE HOUSEBUILDING TECHNOLOGIES, MIT, 1972, pp. 22-32.
"Can
a housewife design a home?" Interview with Diane Loercher, CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR, February 18, 1972. Also in BALTIMORE EVENING SUN, February
27, 1972.
"Alexander y la metodologia de diseno,"
SUMMA, July 1972, No. 51, pp. 17-24.
Interview with Max
Jacobson, "A Refutation of Design Methodology," in DESIGN METHODS
NEWSLETTER, March 1971, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3-7. Also in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN,
December 1971, Vol. 42, pp. 768-770; LA ESTRUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona,
1971, Appendix; DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN METHODOLOGY, edited Nigel Cross, 1984,
pp. 309-316.
"Houses Generated by Patterns, Summary."
In David Lewis, THE GROWTH OF CITIES, London, 1971.
Interview
with Maria Jose Rague Arias, in Maria Jose Rague Arias, CALIFORNIA TRIP,
Barcelona, 1971, 53-59.
Letter of response to "New
Architecture: Building for Man," by Douglas Davis, NEWSWEEK, April 19,
1971, pp. 8-9.
"Changes in Form," ARCHITECTURAL
DESIGN, London, March 1970, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 122-125. Also in LA
ESTRUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona, 1971, pp. 109-133.
"A
View of Contemporary World Architecture," JAPAN ARCHITECT, 1970, Vol. 45,
pp. 52-54.
"The Environment," THE JAPAN ARCHITECT,
165, 1970. Also in LA ESTRUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona, 1971, pp.
91-108; A+U, August 1972, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 111-122.
Berkeley
Civic Center Expansion Schematic Design with Ronald Walkey and Barbara
Schreiner, Center for Environmental Structure, 1970.
"System
Denken - Modern Version des Cafulils fur Wunder," BAUMEISTER, Germany,
December 1969, Vol. 65, pp. 1452-1459.
"Mosaic of
Subcultures," Center for Environmental Structure, December 1969.
"Houses
generated by patterns" (with Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie
Coffin and Shlomo Angel), published in ARCHITECT'S YEAR BOOK, U.K., 1971, Vol. 13, pp. 84-114.
"A Sublanguage of 70 Patterns for
Multi-Service Centers" (with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein),
report submitted to the Hunts Point Neighborhood Corporation, Hunts Point,
Bronx, New York, January, 1968.
"Subsymmetries" (with Susan Carey), PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOPHYSICS, Vol. 4 (2), February, 1968, pp.
73-77.
"The Environmental Pattern Language," EKISTICS,
May 1968, Vol. 25, pp. 336-337.
"Thick Wall Pattern,"
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, July, 1968, Vol. 38, pp. 324-326.
"The
Organization of the Design Pattern," lecture given to the Royal College
of Art (London), Research Unit, July l8, l968.
"Major
Changes in Environmental Form Required by Social and Psychological
Demands," Second International Seminar, Japan Center for Area Development
Research, September 1968, pp. 66-83. Also published in EKISTICS, August 1969,
Vol. 28, No. 165, pp.78-85; ARCHITECTURE PLUS, Vol. 2, No. 7, 1969;
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, March 1970, pp. 120-125; WORLD CONGRESS OF ENGINEERS AND
ARCHITECTS, 1970, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 289-296; STREVEN, February 1970, Vol. 1,
No. 5, pp. 454-463; STRUKTUR FRIHED FORM, Peter Broberg and Karen Zahle,
editors, Copenhagen, 1976, pp. 77-95.
"Christopher
Alexander: Nuevas Ideas Sobre Deseno Urbano," CUADERNOS SUMMA-NUEVA
VISION, ‘September 1968, entire issue devoted to Christopher
Alexander.
"The Bead Game Conjecture," LOTUS 5, 1968,
Alfieri, Venezia, pp. 151-154.
Cells of Subcultures, occasional
paper of the Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, 1968.
Thick
Wall Pattern, 1967.
"The Center for Environmental
Structure: Theory, Organization and Activities," Brochure, Center for
Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California, 1967. Reprinted in IKISTICS,
May 1968, Vol. 25, No. 150, pp. 336-337; AD, May 1968, pp. 204-205; Summary in
DRS NEWSLETTER, July 1968, Vol. 1, No. 2.
"Design Innovation"
(with others), PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE, November, 1967, Vol. 48, pp.
126-131.
"Reply to Carson and Roosen-Runge," JOURNAL
OF THE AIP, November 1967, pp. 414-417.
"Proceedings of
the Seminar of the Center for Environmental Structure" (with Sara
Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein and others), Center for Environmental Structure,
Berkeley, California, 1967.
"Systems generating
systems", booklet, also published in ARCHITECTURE CANADA, No. 11, Vol.
45, November 1968, pp. 39-44; CASABELLA, Vol. 31, No. 321, 1967, pp. 4-11;
APPROACH, Spring, 1968, pp. 14-19; and ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, December 1968,
pp. 605-608; TRES ASPECTOS DE MATEMATICA Y DISENO, Barcelona, 1969, pp.
62-79; LA ESTRUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona, 1971, pp. 57-72.
"The
City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact," in ENVIRONMENT FOR
MAN: THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (edited by W. Ewald), American Institute of Planners
Conference, Indiana University Press, 1967, pp. 60-102. Also published by the
Center for Planning and Development Research, University of California,
Berkeley, Working Paper No. 50, October, 1966; TRANSACTIONS OF THE BARTLETT
SOCIETY, 1965/66, Volume 4, 93-136; CUADERNOS SUMMA-NUEVA VISION, No. 9,
September, 1968, pp. 3-19; and APPROACH, Spring, 1968, p. 24.
"BART:
The Bay Area Takes a Million Dollar Ride," ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, June
1966, Vol. 124, No. 6, pp. 38-61.
"From a Set of Forces to
a Form," in THE MAN-MADE OBJECT, Vision and Value Series, Volume 4
(edited by Gyorgy Kepes), George Braziller, New York, 1966, pp. 96-107. Also
in INTERIOR DESIGN, October 1967, pp. 36-39, translated into French, 1968;
ENVIRONMENTS: NOTES AND SELECTIONS ON OBJECTS, SPACES AND BEHAVIOR, (edited
by Stephen Friedman and Joseph B. ‘Juhasz), Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.,
Monterey, California, 1974, pp. 13-21; ESPACIOS CEPA, Argentina, 1977, No. 6,
pp. 22-43.
"Relational Complexes in Architecture"
(with Van Maren King and others), ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, September, 1966, Vol.
140, No. 3, pp. 185-190.
"The Pattern of Streets,"
JOURNAL OF THE AIP, September, 1966, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 273-278. Also in
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, November, 1967, Vol. 37, pp. 528-531; APPROACH, Spring,
1968, p. 25; SUMMA, December 1968, No. 14, pp. 69-71.
"Twenty-Six
Entrance Relations for a Suburban House," in "The Atoms of
Environmental Structure, Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, Directorate
of Research and Development," London, 1966, pp. 17-73, reprinted in
EMERGING METHODS IN DESIGN, Gary Moore, editor, MIT, 1971.
"The
Atoms of Environmental Structure" (with Barry Poyner), Ministry of Public
Buildings and Works, Directorate of Research and Development, London, 1966,
pp. 3016. Also published by the Center for Planning and Development Research,
University of California, Berkeley, July, 1966, reprinted in EMERGING METHODS
IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND PLANNING, Gary Moore, editor, MIT, 1971, pp.
308-320; LA ESTRUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona, 1971, pp. 75-90;
DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN METHODOLOGY, Nigel Cross, editor, 1984, pp.
123-133.
"The Coordination of the Urban Rule System,"
Regio Basiliensis Proceedings, Basel, Switzerland, December, 1965, pp. 1-9.
Also published by INTERNATIONALE REGIO PLANERTAGUNG, Switzerland, September
1965, pp. 168-177; The Center for Planning and Development Research,
University of California, Berkeley, July, 1966; ESPACIOS CEPA, Argentina,
1977, No. 6, pp. 44-67.
"390 Requirements for the Rapid
Transit Station," (with Van Maren King and Sara Ishikawa), Library of the
College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, California, 1965.
"A City is Not a Tree," ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, April-May, 1965, Vol. 122, pp. 58-62. Also in DESIGN, February, 1966, pp. 46-55; HEFTI BIRTINGUR 13, 1967,
pp. 50-72; TVAI, Israel, Spring 1967, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 64-69; ARCHITECTURE
MOUVEMENT CONTINUITE 1, November 1967, No. 161, pp. 3-11; STICHTING
WERKGEMEENSCHAPPEN BERGEIJK, No. 2, pp. 77-108; APPROACH, Spring, 1968,
pp.26-27; CUADERNOS SUMMA-NUEVA VISION, No. 9, September, 1968, pp. 20-30;
EKISTICS, Vol. 23, pp. 344-348; ARCHITECTURE ANTHOLOGY, Arizona State
University, 1969, pp. 580-590; ACTUALIDADES TECNICO CIENTIFICAS ARQUITECTURA,
July 1969, No. 2, pp. 54-82; TRES ASPECTOD DE MATEMATICA Y DESENO, Barcelona,
‘1969, pp. 19-60; LA ESTRUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona, 1971, pp.
17-55; ZONE, May 1986, Vol. 1/2, p. 129-149; ARCHITECTURE CULTURE 1943-1968:
A DOCUMENTARY ANTHOLOGY, Joan Ockman, ed., Columbia Books of Architecture and
Rizzoli, New York, 1993, pp.379-388.
"The Theory and
Invention of Form, ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, April, 1965, Vol. 137, pp.
177-186.
"The Question of Computers in Design,"
ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTERS, Boston, 1964, p. 52. Also in LANDSCAPE, Vol. 14,
No. 3, Spring, 1965, pp. 6-8; TRES ASPECTOS DE MATEMATICA Y DISENO, Barcelona,
1969, pp. 9-16; LA ESTUCTURA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, Barcelona, 1971, pp.
9-15.
"On Changing the Way People See" (with A. W. F.
Huggins), PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, Vol. 19, July, 1964, pp.
235-253.
"Hidecs 3: Four Computer Programs for the
Hierarchical Decomposition of Systems Which Have an Associated Linear
Graph," Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory Publication Report No.
R63-27, MIT, June, 1963.
"Main Structure Concept"
(with B. V. Doshi), LANDSCAPE, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter), 1963-64, pp. 17-20.
Reprinted in EKISTICS, Vol. 17, No. 103 (June 1964), pp. 352-354.
"The
Most Stable Decomposition of a System into Subsystems," INFORMATION AND
CONTROL, 1963.
"Twenty-six Pictures to the Top of the
Tree," ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, October 1963.
"The
Determination of Components for an Indian Village," PROCEEDINGS OF THE
CONFERENCE ON DESIGN METHOD, London, September, 1962. Also published by
Pergamon Press, 1963, pp. 83-114 and DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN METHODOLOGY,
editor Nigel Cross, 1984, pp. 33-56.
"Hidecs 2: A Computer
Program for the Hierarchical Decomposition of a Set with an Associated
Graph," (with Marvin Manheim), Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory
Publication 160, MIT, June, 1962. Also in BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE, Vol. 8, No. 2,
April, 1963.
"The Origin of Creative Power in Children,"
BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS, Vol. 3, No. 2, July, 1962, pp. 207-226. Also
in ART FOR THE PREPRIMARY CHILD, Hilda Present Lewis, editor, Spring 1972, pp.
33-49.
"The Use of Diagrams in Highway Route
Location," (with Marvin Manheim), Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory
Publication 161, MIT, March, 1962. Also in Highway Research Board Reports,
1965.
"The Design of Highway Interchanges" (with
Marvin Manheim), Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory Publication 195, MIT,
March, 1962. Also in Highway Research Record No. 83, Highway Research Board,
Washington, D.C., 1965.
"Information and an Organized
Process of Design," PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRT, Washington, Spring, 1961,
pp. 115-124.
"A Result in Visual Aesthetics," BRITISH
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, October, 1960, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 357-371.
"The
Revolution Finished Twenty Years Ago," in ARCHITECT'S YEAR BOOK, Vol. 9,
London, 1960, pp. 181-185.
"Perception and Modular
Coordination," RIBA JOURNAL, Vol. 66, No. 12, October, 1959, pp.
425-429.
VI.
BOOKS, PAPERS AND ARTICLES ABOUT
ALEXANDER AND HIS WORK
BY
OTHER AUTHORS
"Eyecatcher - unusual sites from around the
world" article about the West Dean Gardens Visitors Center in xxx
newspaper, England, by xxx, August 1996, p.xx
"Patterns:
The key to succesful software design" by Diane Sanders in TELEPHONY
Magazine, June 24, 1996, pp.176-77.
Ann Medlock, "Clergy"
Poem, 1996
"Houses with Soul: a talk with Christopher
Alexander" Carolyn Hines' interview with Christopher Alexander in Aspen
Snowmass Star, A Publication of BJ Adams and Co. Real Estate, Summer 1996,
pp.1-6.
"The Good Book" interview with Christopher
Alexander about "A Pattern Language," by Carolann Rule in WESTERN
LIVING Magazine, April 1996, pp.1-6.
"A new American
craftsman house" Article about the Upham house, Berkeley, by Kenneth
Baker in the AMERICAN HOME STYLE and Gardening Magazine, April/May 1996,
pp.42-47.
"A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART" Book
review in GEREH Carpet and Textile Magazine (Unione Stampa Periodica
Italiana), No.7, December 1995, p.101.
"The Laws of
Architecture From a Physicist's Perspective" by Nikos A. Salingaros in
Physics Essays, Vol.8, No.4, 1995. pp.638-43.
"Der Mond
ist unter. Geblieben: Die vier Ecken des Tisches. Christopher Alexander im
GesprÀÀch mit Georg Schrom" by Renate Ganser and Georg Schrom in
ARCHITEKTUR AKTUELL of Springer-Verlag - Wien, July/August 1995, pp.92-101.
"The life of carpets: an application of the Alexander
rules" by Nikos A. Salingaros, unpublished, supplemented for HALI
Magazine, July 13, 1995
"THE MARY ROSE MUSEUM" Book
Review by Alan Powers in COUNTRY LIFE, June 22, 1995, p.5.
"Architects
in battle over the Mary Rose" by Mira Bar-Hillel in the EVENING STANDARD,
May 11, 1995, p.23.
"Not Arts and Crafts" by Brian
Hanson in Educating Architects, AD ACADEMY EDITIONS, May 1995,
pp.106-109.
‘RIBA chhief steps in to Mary Rose row" by
Mira Bar-Hillel in SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, February 26, 1995
"Keeping
the professional flag flying" by Paul Finch, Leader in the ARCHITECTS'
JOURNAL, February 9, 1995
"Author: Design should link
people to the earth" by Karen Rathe in the SEATTLE TIMES, March 5,
1995
"The Alexander Technique - Berkeley Architect
Christopher Alexander is Passionate about Making Buildings Where People Feel
Whole" by Laurence B. Chollet, LOS ANGELES TIMES Magazine, January 29,
1995, pp.14-16, 28.
A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART Book
review by Alan Powers in CRAFTS, Magazine of the British Council, October-November
1994
Review of A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART by Stuart
Smithers in PARABOLA Magazine, November 1994, p. 88.
Brian
Hanson, "The West Dean College Visitors Center" in Proceedings of
Portsmouth symposium, published in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, November 1994.
A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART - Book Review by Kathleen McCann
in FIBERARTS, Sept/Oct 1994, p. 62.
Richard P. Gabriel, "The Bead Game, Rugs, and Beauty: Part
2," in Journal of Object-oriented programming, September 1994,
pp.44-49.
James O. Coplien, "Highlights of the First Conference on Pattern
Language of Programming", AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical
Memorandum, ILL650 1G341, September 1994.
James O. Coplien,
"A Development Process Generative Pattern Language", in Proceedings
of First Conference on Pattern Language of Programming, Monticello, Illinois,
August 1994, pp.1-33.
"The small house", New York
Times, August 1994
James O. Coplien, "Generative Pattern Languages,"
C++ Report, July-August 1994, pp.19-64.
"Christopher
Alexander Visits The Oregon Experiment" By Greg Bryant in RAIN Magazine, Summer 1994, Volume XIV, Number 4, p. 14.
Richard P. Gabriel, "The Bead Game, Rugs and Beauty:
Part 1," in Journal of Object-oriented programming, June 1994,
pp.74-78.
"WEAVING
AS LITURGY; The Alexander Collection: Part I," by John Eskenazi and
"A CARPET IS A PICTURE OF GOD; The Alexander Collection: Part II,"
by Ian Bennett. Reviews ‘of A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART in HALI
MAGAZINE, London, April/May 1994, p. 80-95.
"The Alexander
Collection: Part II" by Ian Bennett. Review of A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST
CENTURY ART, in HALI MAGAZINE, London,
April/May 1994, pp.80-95.
Review of A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST
CENTURY ART by Kenneth Baker, regular Art Critic of San Francisco Chronicle,
Feb. 1994; commissioned by the NEW YORKER, not yet published.
"A
design for living" by Laurence Chollet in THE RECORD, New Jersey, January
9, 1994, p. E-3. Review of A FORESHADOWING OF 21ST CENTURY ART.
"Housing:
'Pedestrian Village' proposed at Business Center," by Gil I. Rudawsky, in
ASPEN TIMES DAILY, January 13, 1994.
Review of A FORESHADOWING
OF 21ST CENTURY ART: THE COLOR AND GEOMETRY OF VERY EARLY TURKISH CARPETS, in
NEWSWEEK, December 6, 1993, p. 74.
"Architecture can be
kind to the Soul" by Tom Peters in THE SEATTLE TIMES Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, October 18, 1993, section B-3
"Campus
Village: Dorms No More" by Phil Patton,THE NEW YORK TIMES The Living
Arts, September 23, 1993
"Christopher Alexander and
Contemporary Architecture," by Ingrid F. King, in a Special Issue of
ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, Tokyo, August 1993, entire volume, with a preface
by Christopher Alexander, p. 4-7.
"Voice of Wisdom,"
by Julie V. Iovine, Kim Johnson Gross, and Jeff Stone, in CHIC SIMPLE HOME,
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993, pp. 162-163.
REDEFINING
DESIGNING: FROM FORM TO EXPERIENCE, by C. Thomas Mitchell, Van Nostrand
Reinhold, New York, 1993, throughout.
"The Revolutionary
Architect," by Joel Garreau, in THE MONTHLY, Emeryville, California, Vol.
XXIII, No. 7, April 1993, pp. 15-19.
"The Linguistics of
Design," by Kitty Axelson-Berry, in SPRINGFIELD ADVOCATE, Massachusetts,
March 11-17, 1993, pp. 14-15.
"Now for the plane
truth," by Edward Pilkington, THE GUARDIAN, London, Thursday, October 29,
1992, Arts Profile.
"Alexander the Urban Activist:
Crusader for a new community spirit," by Susannah Temko, DIABLO
‘MAGAZINE, September 1992, pp. 35, 38-42, 44.
"Storm blows
up over home for Mary Rose," by Justin Strong, THE PORTSMOUTH EVENING
NEWS, Portsmouth, England, August 22, 1992.
"The Prince,
the professor and the Palace PR lady," by Paul Keel, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY,
London, August 16, 1992, p. 9.
"'Pushy' Belinda in storm
over royal architect," by Alison Gordon, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY, London,
August 9, 1992.
"Princely Post for Berkeley
Architect," by Diana Ketcham, OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Monday, June 1, 1992, p.
B-2.
CALIFORNIA INDIAN ENERGY NEWS, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1992,
p. 8.
"Building from the Heart: An Interview with
Christopher Alexander," by Pat Murphy, EXPLORATORIUM QUARTERLY, Vol. 16,
No. 1, Spring 1992, pp. 34-39.
CED NEWS, College of
Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley, Vol. 10, No. 2,
Spring 1992, p. 22
"Back Porch on the Future," by Pilar
Viladas, HOUSE AND GARDEN, April 1992, pp. 116-121.
"The
Design 100," by Dorothy Kalins, Editor in Chief, METROPOLITAN HOME, April
1992, p. 73.
"Patterns ... Christopher Alexander to Speak
at 10th Annual Kahn Memorial Lecture," CITY SITES: NEWSLETTER OF THE
FOUNDATION FOR ARCHITECTURE, Vol. 7, No. 2, March/April 1992, p. 1.
"Familiarity
Breeds Content?: Met Home's Design 100 List," by Liz Lufkin, SAN
FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Wednesday, March 11, 1992.
"Prince
Charles Forms Architecture School," THE NEW YORK TIMES, Thursday,
February 13, 1992, p. C15.
"Serge Chermayeff - Architect
and Designer," by Alan Powers, Lecture given to the Thirties Society,
February 12, 1992.
"A Vision for the Present: From model
to mortar, an update on The Prince of Wales's architectural plans," by
Alan Powers, VOGUE, London, February 1992, pp. 138-141.
Special
issue "Patterns and Personality," of PLACES: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1992, focussing on the history, influence
and function of The University of Oregon Master Plan, and excerpts from THE
OREGON EXPERIMENT, throughout the issue.
FACING TOMORROW: WHAT
THE FUTURE HAS BEEN ‘WHAT THE FUTURE CAN BE, by Thomas Hine, Alfred A. Knopf,
New York, 1991, pp. 194-196.
"Alexander patterns for design
computing: atoms of conceptual structure?" by P. Galle, in ENVIRONMENT
AND PLANNING B: PLANNING AND DESIGN, Vol. 18, 1991, pp. 327-346.
"House
of Patterns," by Fred Albert, in PACIFIC, The Seattle Times/Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, October 20, 1991, pp. 26-33.
EDGE CITY: LIFE
ON THE NEW FRONTIER, by Joel Garreau, Doubleday, New York, 1991, pp.
318-339.
"Is Charles the true heir of civilisation,"
by Mira Bar-Hillel, in EVENING STANDARD, London, Moday, September 16, 1991,
p. 17.
"The Real Meaning of Architecture," by Thomas
Fisher and Ziva Freiman, in PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE, July 1991, pp.
100-107.
"Village could add 250 homes to AABC," by
Scott Condon, in ASPEN TIMES DAILY, April, 17, 1991, p. 3.
"Model
School," by Jules Lubbock, in ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL, London, April 10,
1991, pp. 26-29.
"Conversation with an American Architect,
Mr. Christopher Alexander: 'High-Rise for Lack of Land' is Wrong, It is
Possible to Create High-Density Human Living Environment with Low-Rise
Houses," by Misako Ando, in MAINICHI NEWSPAPER, Tokyo, March 24,
1991.
"Prince Charles, Christopher Alexander and A Pattern
Language," by Sajjad, in FREEDOM, March 23, 1991, Vol. 52, No. 6.
"To
Houses With Own Garden From High-Rise Houses: A Proposal by Mr. Christopher
Alexander," by Kazuhiko Shibusawa, in SANKEI NEWSPAPER, Tokyo, March 14,
1991, p. 19.
"Mary Rose finally finds shelter from the
storm," by Mira Bar-Hillel, in CHARTERED SURVEYOR WEEKLY, March 7, 1991,
p. 22.
"Revisiting Mexicali," an interview by Thomas
Fisher, in PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE, March 1991, pp. 79-81.
"The
Oregon Experiment After Twenty Years" by Greg Bryant, in RAIN Magazine,
Winter/Spring 1991, Vol. XIV, no. 1, pp. 32-39.
"Decentralized
Systems," by Greg Bryant, in RAIN Magazine, Winter/Spring 1991, Vol. XIV,
No.1, pp. 42-43.
Review of A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN, by
Besim S. Hakim, in JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL ‘EDUCATION, February 1991, pp.
120-123.
"Biculturalism and Community: A Transformative
Model for Design Education," by Anthony Ward, in JOURNAL OF
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, February 1991, pp. 90-109.
"The
Science of Design: Christopher Alexander's Search for a Generative
Structure" By Stephen Gabrow, in WISCONSIN ARCHITECT, February
1991.
"Carbuncle's plan for Mary Rose sunk by
Charles," by Sarah Lonsdale, in THE OBSERVER, February 10, 1991.
"Interview
with Christopher Alexander," by Avani Parikh, ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN, New
Delhi, January-February 1991, pp. 93-99.
"Prince Charles's
word alters Mary Rose hall design course," by Martin Spring, in BUILDING,
January 18, 1991, p. 8.
"Kosugi Project," condominiums
buildt using A PATTERN LANGUAGE, appearing in THE JAPAN ARCHITECT, January
1991, pp. 353-359; and NIKKEI ARCHITECTURE, January 1991, pp. 113-124. Project
dedicated to Christopher Alexander.
"Magic carpets,"
by David Bonetti, in SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, Style Section, Thursday, November
15, 1990, p. C-1, continued C-15. Review of the De Young Museum exhibit,
"Ancient Color and Geometry: Very Early Turkish Carpets of the Christopher
Alexander Collection".
"A Needle's Eye View," by
Marlo Faulkner, in THE TIMES, Time Out Section, Thursday, November 15, 1990,
p. D1. Review of the De Young Museum exhibit, "Ancient Color and
Geometry: Very Early Turkish Carpets of the Christopher Alexander Collection".
"Carpets
Woven With Artful Thread," by Kenneth Baker, in SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
Tuesday, November 13, 1990, Datebook Section, p. E1. Review of the De Young
Museum exhibit, "Ancient Color and Geometry: Very Early Turkish Carpets
of the Christopher Alexander Collection".
"Carpets,"
by Susan Edmiston, AT HOME: BAY AREA LIVING, A Supplement of San Francisco
Focus Magazine, Autumn 1990, p. 28-32.
"Perspectives:
Finding Sullivan's Thread," by Thomas Kubala, in PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE, pp. 102-104.
"Lowrise or Highrise: Looking
for the New Vision to Make Living Environment," Proceedings of the 1st
Seminar on Living Environment, May 26, 1990, Nagoya, Japan, Published by
Nagoya Living Environment Conference.
"Professor: Low-rise
is beautiful," by Mira Bar-Hillel, in CHARTERED SURVEYOR WEEKLY, May 17,
1990, p. 31.
"Archetypalism," by Phil Patton, 7 DAYS
MAGAZINE, New York, Vol. 3, No. 14, April 11, 1990, p. 21-24.
Review
of A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN by Giancarlo de Carlo, in SPAZIO E SOCIETA,
Jan/March 1990, pp. 118-121
ENTRIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION FOR THE
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FORUM, 1989, Japan Institute of Architects, Tokyo, March
26, 1990. Christopher Alexander's entry p. 133.
"Prince
Charles, Architecture's Royal Pain," by Benjamin Forgey, THE WASHINGTON
POST, Style Section, Thursday, February 22, 1990, p. B1, continued p.
B6.
"Not-so-soothing surroundings at unfinished inn,"
by Philip Harper, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, Sunday, February 11, 1990.
"House
Hunting," by Martin Filler, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, February 1,
1990, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, p. 26-29.
"The Pattern Language
and It's Enemies," by Kimberly Dovey, in DESIGN STUDIES, Vol. II, No. 1,
January 1990, pp. 3-9.
Letters to the Editor, METROPOLITAN
HOME, February 1990, p. 49. Responses to Christopher Alexander's review of
H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales' book, A VISION OF BRITAIN, appearing
in METROPOLITAN HOME, December 1989.
"US architect backs
Prince on design," by Mara Bar-Hillel, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, London,
December 31, 1989, p. 4.
"Buttress for Prince's
view," excerpt of "US architect backs Prince on design," by
Mara Bar-Hillel, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, appearing in THE SUNDAY TIMES, London,
December 31, 1989.
PARADIGM A: NEWSLETTER #4, Roland Angenent
and Gerrit Kelhout, editors, Netherlands, December 1989.
"THE
'DESIGN YOUR OWN OFFICE' PROGRAM", by Steven Gregg Murray, A Professional
Report, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture,
University of California, Berkeley, December 5, 1989.
Review of
A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN, by Anjan Mitra, ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN, India,
November-December 1989, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 125.
"Resurrecting
Arcadia," by Friso Broeksma, in a special issue of FOURUM, ARCHITECTURAL
QUARTERLY, "Friso ‘Broeksma: Dispatches from California", Amsterdam,
November 1989, p. 5-25.
PARADIGM A: NEWSLETTER #3, Roland
Angenent and Gerrit Kelhout, editors, Netherlands, September 1989.
"Berkeley's
'renegade architect'," by Thomas York, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, Real
Estate Section, Sunday, September 3, 1989, p. F1, continued p. F6.
PARADIGM
A: NEWSLETTER #2, Roland Angenent and Gerrit Kelhout, editors, Netherlands,
June 1989.
PARADIGM A: NEWSLETTER #1, Roland Angenent and Gerrit
Kelhout, editors, Netherlands, March 1989.
"The Heart of
the House: Architect Christopher Alexander's Magic Kitchen," by Peter
Lemos, AMERICAN HOME, Fall/Winter 1989, p. 14-16, 117-118.
"Pattern
Language: Designing an eloquent house," by Craig Canine, HARROWSMITH,
July/August 1989, Vol. XIV:2, No. 86, p. 66-75.
"Rebel's
Quest Is to Make Every Client an Architect," by Diana Ketchum, in THE NEW
YORK TIMES, The Home Section, Thursday, June 29, 1989, p. C1, continued on p.
C12. Printed in THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEST COAST EDITION, "A Renegade
Architect Designs for 'Every Man'," p. B1, B4. Also printed as "A
Rebel's Idea: Be Your Own Architect," INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE,
Saturday-Sunday, July 1-2, 1989, p. 16.
"Komagome
Building," by Mr. Matsuba, in BOX, Tokyo, April 1989, p. 12-15.
"In
Pursuit of the Possibility of 'Place' -- School Architecture of Christopher
Alexander," by Hiroshi Ichikawa, in SEARCH FOR SELF AND SEARCH FOR THE
COSMOS, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, March 1989, p. 147-168.
"Room
at the Inn," by Dale Conour, PENINSULA, San Jose Edition, March 1989,
Vol. III, No. 12, p. 28.
"A shelter with dignity," by
Gary Richards, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, Tuesday, March 7, 1989, p. B1.
"More
than rooms at this inn: Architecture of Julian Street project shows care,
dignity", by Alan Hess, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, Sunday, February 26, 1989,
p. C1.
"The Spirit of Home," by William L. Hamilton,
METROPOLITAN HOME, December 1988, Vol. 20, No. 12, p. 67-77.
"Die
Mundigwerdung der indonesischen Architektur," by Heinz Frick,
Dissertation expose, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherland, November
1988.
"Systemaufbau der konstruktiven 'Pattern
Language'," by Heinz Frick, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,
Netherland, no date.
"Drafting Designs for the
Future," by S. Azby Brown, PRISM: THE MAGAZINE OF JAPANESE INDUSTRY AND
LIFESTYLES, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo, October/November 1988, p.
11-13.
"Better Design for Better Housing," by Sam Hall
Kaplan, LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sunday, August 7, 1988, Part VIII, p. 2.
"Eishin
School, Higashino High School," INAX BOOKLET, Japanese-language magazine,
Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 25-28.
"Echoes of the Past, Visions for
the Present," by Kurt Andersen, TIME, January 4, 1988, p. 74-75.
FRINGES:
A VISUAL APPROACH TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF STRUCTURES, by GenGo Matsui, Kajima
Institute Publishing Co., Ltd., Japan, 1986, p. 48-59. Translation by Dr.
Ja'nos A. Nagy.
"Maison De Louran," in NIKKEI
ARCHITECTURE, 6-13, 1988, pp. 65-69 and pp. 92-93 and pp. 232. Cover
photograph.
Review of A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN,
"Alexander's Alternative for Creating an Urban Context," by George
Rand, in ARCHITECTURE, February 1988, p. 35.
"Inn Offers
Much More than Shelter," by Alan Hess, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, Sunday,
January 31, 1988, p. 6P.
"The Laughter at the Heart of
Things," by Helen M. Luke, PARABOLA, Winter 1987, pp. 6-17.
"Building
By the Book: Using 'A Pattern Language' to Design a House with a Heart,"
by Craig Canine, HARROWSMITH, July/August 1987, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp.
51-59.
"Pattern Planning: One-Of-A-Kind Homes You Design
Yourself," in BUILDING IDEAS, Summer 1987, pp. 104-112.
"Shelter
for the Dispossessed: Emergency Shelters," by Sally Woodbridge,
ARCHITECTURE CALIFORNIA, March/April 1987, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 28.
"Mini-Neighborhood
Project," by Seth Wachtel, Professional Report for the Master of
Architecture Division of the University of California, Berkeley, April
1987.
"Homework in the Ozarks: Four Architecture Students
Design and Build a Solar Farmhouse," by Steve Dowen, Stan Koehn, Doug
Pierce and Daryl Rantis, in FINE HOMEBUILDING, February/March 1987, pp.
70-75.
"Putting A PATTERN LANGUAGE to Work: An inspired
design approach achieves high-quality space on a tight budget," by Dale
Mulfinger, FINE HOMEBUILDING, Special issue on houses, Spring 1987, No. 38,
pp. 49-53.
"Design and the Teaching of Design," by
John Parman and Jocelyn Kwei, CED NEWS, University of California, Spring
1987, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 4-6.
"An Exploration into the
Equilibrium between Detail and Roughness in Construction," by Sid Conn,
University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1987.
"Christopher
Alexander and the Nature of Architecture," by Gary Coates, Sussanne
Siepl, and David Seamon, ORION NATURE QUARTERLY, Spring 1987, Vol. 6, No. 2,
pp. 20-33.
Article on Eishin School, in NIKKEI ARCHITECTURE,
July 27, 1987, pp. 148-156.
"The Pattern Language and Its
Enemies," by Kim Dovey, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1987.
"Learning
the Language of Practice," by Robert J. Yinger, University of Cincinnati,
The Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, 17:3, 1987, pp. 293-318.
"Christopher
Alexander: Towards an Architecture of Freedom," by Dil Green, Bachelor of
Architecture Thesis, Manchester Polytechnic School of Architecture,
1987.
"A Pattern Language: How An Oregon Architectural Firm
Uses this Benchmark Book to Design Houses," by Rob Thallon and David
Edrington, FINE HOMEBUILDING, December 1986/January 1987, pp. 51-55.
"Architect
Unveils Drawings of City Shelter for Homeless," by Frank Sweeney, SAN
JOSE MERCURY NEWS, Tuesday, September 30, 1986, p. 8B.
"Trail-blazing
Berkeley Architect in Running for Major Civic Center," by Charles Shere,
THE TRIBUNE CALENDAR in THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Sunday, September 28, 1986, p.
5, cont. p. 17.
Review of Stephen Grabow's book:
"Christopher Alexander: The Search for a New Paradigm in
Architecture," by Bill Beard, in FINE HOMEBUILDING, No. 33, June/July
1986, p. 88.
Review of "The Production of Houses,"
by David Spires, in FINE HOMEBUILDING, No. 33, June/July 1986, p. 88.
"Harmony
and Wholeness," by Pilar Viladas and Thomas Fisher, PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE, June 1986, p. 92-103.
"Color, Inner Light,
and Architecture," by Denise Owen, Professional Report for Master of
Architecture Program, College of Envirnomental Design, University of
California, ‘Berkeley, May 1986.
"Coming Home: The Making
of a House," by Nora Gallagher, IMAGE MAGAZINE, in THE SAN FRANCISCO
EXAMINER, April 27, 1986, pp. 30-34; continued p. 50. Cover
photograph.
"Reynera Banham anilizza Christopher Alexander:
L'eterno modo di cambiare rotta," by Reyner Banham, CASABELLA, March
1986, pp. 33-35.
"House as Home," by Peter Davey,
editorial, THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, February 1986, Vol. CLXXIX, No. 1068, p.
22-23.
"An Approach to Wholeness," by Dorit Fromm, THE
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, February 1986, Vol. CLXXIX, No. 1068, pp. 24-31.
"On
the Edge of the Bay, JSW," by Neil Jackson, THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW,
February 1986, Vol. CLXXIX, No. 1068, pp. 32-39.
"Burgess
Entrances," by Rory Spence, THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, February 1986, Vol.
CLXXIX, No. 1068, pp. 40-43.
"'Pattern' and
'Postmodern'," by Paulhans Peters, BAUMEISTER, February 1986, p.
6.
"Das Machen von Gebauden: Eishin College - Eishin High
School bei Tokio," by Hansjoachim Neis, BAUMEISTER, February 1986, pp.
25-42. Introduction by Christopher Alexander, p. 24. Cover Photograph.
"A
Most Excellent Architectural Master in our Time: Christopher Alexander,"
by Gu Meng-chao, THE CHINESE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL, translated by Dai Zhizhong,
June 18, 1986, pp. 76-77.
"Fundamental Conditions
Necessary for the Creation of Green Space in a City," by Hansjoachim
Neis, INTERNATIONAL GREEN FORUM REPORT, September 1986, pp. 111-113.
"Patterns
der landlischen Ibosiedlungen in Ostnigeria," by Emmanuel Ede,
Disertation for Institut fur Architektur - Und Plannungstheorie, University of
Hannover, 1986.
"Generative Design in Architecture Using an
Expert System," by Eric Gullichsen and Ernest Chang, February 19, 1985.
Paper for the Department of Computer Science of the University of Victoria,
Victoria, British Columbia.
"Analysis for the University of
Kansas Campus: Image, Townscape, and Pattern Language," by Osama A.
Elsawahli, February 1985. Master's thesis for the School of Architecture and
Urban Design of the University of Kansas.
"Ordinary-people
plan makes home a natural," by Linda Platts, photos by R.H. Ring, THE
ARIZONA DAILY STAR, Tucson Arizona, Sunday, April 14, 1985, p. I-1, continued
on I-9.
NIKKEI ARCHITECTURE, May 1985, Vol. 20, No. 239, pp.
60-68 (cover photograph).
"ACSA National Meeting: A
Report," by Robert Benson, INLAND ARCHITECT, May/June 1985, p. 16, and
continued on p. 41.
"Eishin-gakuen Higashino Senior High
School by Christopher Alexander and C.E.S.," KENCHIKU BUNKA, June 1985,
Vol, 40, No. 464, pp. 27-60.
THE JAPAN ARCHITECT, June 1985,
Vol. 60, pp. 153-186 (cover photograph).
"Eine Schule Als
Dorf: Eishin Schule, Tokio," by Thomas Kostulski, ARCH+.
"Heideggerian
Thinking and Christopher Alexander's PATTERN LANGUAGE," by David Seamon,
Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University. Paper for the annual
meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association, New York City, June
11, 1985.
Review of THE PRODUCTION OF HOUSES, by Colin Ward,
NEW SOCIETY 9, August 1985, p. 205; HOUSE AND GARDEN, London, October 1985,
p. 94; OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS NEWS, November 21, 1985; Michael J. Crosbie,
AIA JOURNAL, Vol. 74, No. 12, December 1985, pp. 88-89; Richard Dyer, BOSTON
SUNDAY GLOBE, December 8, 1985, p. B15; Diane Ketcham, THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE,
Sunday, January 26, l986, p. 6; Philip Tabor, THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW,
February 1986, Vol. CLXXIX, No. 1068, p. 86; J. Baldwin, WHOLE EARTH REVIEW,
Spring 1986, p. 85; Peter Bosselmann, DESIGN BOOK REVIEW 9, Spring 1986, pp.
62-63; David Spires, FINE HOMEBUILDING, June/July, No. 33, p. 88; David
Seamon, IMPRESSIONS, Fall 1986, Vol. IV, No. 3, pp. 20-23.
"Education
and Design for Sustainability: A Case Study of the Meadowcreek Project, Fox,
Arkansas," by Gary J. Coates, Professor of Architecture, Kansas State
University, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH NATIONAL PASSIVE SOLAR CONFERENCE, A.
Wilson and W. Gtennie (editors), American Solar Energy Society, Inc., 1985,
Vol. 10, pp. 21-26.
"The One Way of Painting: Color, Value
and Geometry," by Ari Cohen, November 1985. Master of Architecture
Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, California.
"A
Clean, Well-Lighted Place," by Jon Krakauer, NEW AGE JOURNAL, December
1985, pp. 40-45; continued pp. 74-75. Also in UTNE READER, No. 15, April/May
1986, pp. 118-125.
"Pattern Language as a
Man-Architecture System," by Kazuhiko Namba, A+U ARCHITECTURE AND
URBANISM, No. 183, December 1985, pp. 4-5.
"Wholeness and
Order in Large Span Roof Trusses," by R. Gary Black, a Professional
Report, Berkeley, California, 1985.
"Arquiteto do renome
internacional deve vira Sao Carlos," in O DIARIO SAO CARLOS, 18 de
Janeiro 1984, Ano XV, No. 3,736.
"Mexicali Revisited 1984,"
by Dorit Fromm, May 1984. Master of Architecture Thesis, University of
California, Berkeley.
"Shaping a Home of One's Own, in
ARCHITECTURE MINNESOTA, May/June 1984, pp. 42-43.
"Christopher
Alexander, Theory and Practice," by James Shipsky, ARCHITECTURE, editor
Donald Canty, July 1984, pp. 54-63.
"Autarkic Settlements:
The Use of Pattern Language in the Design of Highly Self-Sufficient
Settlements," by Issac A. Meir, July 1984. Master of Sciences in
Architecture and Town Planning Thesis, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel.
"The Impact of Models on the
Creation of Order," by Andreas Muschialik, August 1984. Master of
Architecture Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, California.
Mexicali
Revisited: Seven Years Later," by Dorit Fromm and Peter Bosselmann,
PLACES, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Summer 1984, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 78-90. With
an introduction by Christopher Alexander.
"Design Plans
for Meadowcreek: Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically Through
Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language," by Gary J. Coates and David
Seamon, MEADOWCREEK NOTES, Arkansas, Summer 1984, No. 7, pp. 2-10.
"An
Uncommon Bench: A Small Building by Architect Christopher Alexander and
Associates," by Pete Retondo, CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Fall 1984, No. 43,
pp. 78-85. (Includes an interview with Christopher Alexander).
"Christopher
Alexander and His Design Language," by Krzysztof Lenartowicz, QUARTERLY
OF ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING, Krakow, Winter 1984, pp. 373-381.
ARCH+,
March 1984, Vol. 73. Entire issue devoted to Christopher Alexander.
Editorial,
Nikolaus Kuhnert, ibid, pp. 13-14.
"Albany Haus,
Berkeley," by Robert L. Smith, ibid, pp. 38-43.
"Moshav
Shorashim," by Howard Davis, ibid, pp. 44-45.
"Eishin
Schule, Tokyo," by Ken Petermann, ibid, pp. 48-52.
"Neues
aus Berkeley -- mein Studium bei Christopher Alexander," ibid, pp.
54-57.
"...Lehre gesprochen," by Eduardo Vargas, ibid,
pp. 58-59.
"Rolfshagen -- Erfahrungen mit der Pattern
Language aus der Sicht der Bewohner und Planer," by Ludwig Eith, Kay
Marlow and Andreas Maurer, ibid, pp. 60-62.
"Christopher
Alexander und die Wiener Moderne," by Hermann Czech, ibid, pp.
63-65.
"...von Mustern, die einen gewohnlichen Ort
lebenswert machen," by Manfred A. Kovatsch, ibid, pp. 65-69.
Pictures
of Apartment House in Sapporo, Japan, Fresno Market and Linz Cafe, ibid, pp.
46-47, 53 and 74, respectively.
"Foundational Ecology and
Christopher Alexander's PATTERN LANGUAGE," by David Seamon. Paper for the
annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, Atlanta,
Georgia, October 21, 1984.
"Commentary on Mexicali,"
by Karl Linn, THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE, COLUMNS, Vol. 1, Van Nostrand
Reinhold Company, Inc., New York, 1984.
"Alexander's
Pattern Language and the Aesthetic Experience of the Human Brain," by
Osama A. Elsawahli, Paper for University of Kansas, Master's Program,
Lawrence, Kansas, 1983-4.
"Christopher Alexander and the
Pattern Language," by M. Gelernter, ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL, U.K., January
1983, pp. 17-21.
"Seeking For A New Paradigm: Logic and
Practice of Christopher Alexander," by Hiroshi Nakano, AXIS, January
1983, Vol. 6, pp. 30-35.
"Oregon Experiment under 10 year
evaluation," by Land du Pont, OREGON DAILY EMERALD, Eugene, Wednesday,
January 19, 1983, Vol. 84, No. 82, p. 1.
"A Pattern
Language for Holiday Villages," by Ali Yavuz Ozbay, February 1983. Master
of Architecture Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey.
"Experiment Universitat Hannover," by
Sebastian Groth, Diplomarbeit an dem Fachbereich Architektur der Universitat
Hannover, March 1983.
"Owner-Builder Courses: Design/Build
at Heartwood," by Elizabeth Holland, FINE HOMEBUILDING, March 1983, pp.
14-15.
"Individual Houses in Groups: The Pattern Language
in a Teaching Studio," by Howard Davis, JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL
EDUCATION, Spring 1983, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 14-19.
"Report
of the Campus Planning Committee on the University's Planning Process:
Ten-Year Review," University of Oregon, May 1983.
"The
Eishin School Project," by Ken Peterman, May 1983. Master's Thesis,
University of California, Berkeley, California.
"Alexander's
Architecture - A View From a Cafe," DESIGN STUDIES, U.K., July 1983, Vol.
4, No. 3, pp. 196-197.
"The Science of Design: Christopher
Alexander's Search for a Generative Structure," by Stephan Grabow,
REVISION, Fall 1983, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 36-45.
Review of
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: THE SEARCH FOR A NEW PARADIGM IN ARCHITECTURE, by
William Dennis, REVISION, Fall 1983, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 108-109; Robert
Campbell, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, October 1984, pp. 14-16; Robert Benson, INLAND
ARCHITECT, November/December 1984, Vol. 28, No. 6, 59-60; Harry Van
Oudenallen, JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Spring 1985, Vol. 38, No. 3,
p.32; Bill Beard, FINE HOMEBUILDING, June/July 1986, No. 33, p. 88.
"Zen
and the Art of Building Design," by Martin Filler, TWA AMBASSADOR, St.
Paul, November 1983, Vol. 16, No. 11, pp. 53-58.
"The
Production of Houses," ibid, pp. 59-63.
"The Work of
Christopher Alexander and Associates," by C.G. Watson, November 1983.
Undergraduate thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Biography.
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER - THE SEARCH FOR A NEW PARADIGM IN ARCHITECTURE, by
Stephen Grabow, Oriel Press Ltd. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, PLC), U.K.,
1983.
"Marginal Comments on the Debate Between Alexander
and Eisenman," by Georges Teyssot, 40 LOTUS INTERNATIONAL, IV, 1983, PP.
69-73.
"Reading THE OREGON EXPERIMENT," by Tassos M.
Kotsiopoulos, BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1982, pp.
69-85.
"A Maverick and a Model: Christopher Alexander,"
TARRYTOWN NEWSLETTER, March 1982, pp. 3-5.
Reviews of LINZ
CAFE, in CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, January 25, 1982; ARCHITECTURAL
RECORD, March 1982; Jack Perry Brown, LIBRARY JOURNAL, March 15, 1982, Vol.
107, No. 629; J. Baldwin, THE CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Spring 1982; Tanya
Kucak, RAIN, May 1982, p. 20; CHOICE, Vol. 19, No. 1226, May 1982, p. 77;
Peter Buchanan, THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, April 1983; Joseph B. Juhasz, OPEN
HAUS, Holland.
"Das LINZ CAFE," BAUMEISTER, April
1982, pp. 329-333.
"PATTERNS and THE TIMELESS WAY OF
BUILDING - an Evaluation," by R.C. Morrison, Auckland, New Zealand,
1982. BArch sub-thesis.
"Christopher Alexander and the
Language of Architecture," by Joseph B. Juhasz, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY, 1981, 1, pp. 241-246.
"Harbingers: Ten
Architects" by Martin Filler, ART IN AMERICA, Summer 1981, pp.
114-123.
"Notizen zu Christopher Alexander's "Pattern
Language," by Manfred Kovatsch, UMBAU, Vienna, December 1981, pp.
5-17.
"Reflections on the Fable of the Caliph, the Ten
Architects and the Philosopher," by Jean-Pierre Protzen, JOURNAL OF
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Summer 1981, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, pp. 2-8.
"Patterns
and Regeneration" by Peter Buchanan, THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, London,
December 1981, Vol. CLXX, No. 1018, pp. 331-333.
"Individuelle
Designkonzepte: Christopher Alexander," FORUM DESIGN, Linz, 1980.
UTVECKLINGEN
MOT STRUKTURALISM I ARKITEKTUREN, by Anders Ekholm, Nils Ahrbom, Peter
Broberg, and Poul-Erik Skriver, Spangbergs Tryckerier AB, Stockholm, 1980,
pp. 136-145. Biographical sketch and summaries of articles.
"A
Pattern Language Generating Residences for People with Physical
Disabilities," by Ken Snell, Bachelor of Architecture Thesis, University
of Waterloo, Ontario, April 1980.
"Gegenkurs zur Irrsinns -
Architektur," by Von Peter Moseneder, NACHRILEN, June 26, 1980, p.
9.
"Palette des Gestaltens," by Franz Schwabeneder,
NACHRILEN, July 12, 1980.
"Il Concorso del PREVI a
Lima," by Ranieri Valli, EDILIZIA POPOLARE, November/December 1980, Vol.
XXVII, pp. 14-47.
"Pattern Language," by G.
Broadbent, DESIGN STUDIES, U.K., April 1980, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 252-253. Also
published in ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY, April 1979.
CHRISTOPHER
ALEXANDER, by Antonio Cottone, Instituto di Architettura Tecnica, Universita
di Palermo.
"Andrew Rabeneck Reviews A PATTERN
LANGUAGE," by Andrew Rabeneck, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, January 1979, p.
19.
"Tony Ward Reviews: A PATTERN LANGUAGE," by Tony
Ward, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, January 1979, pp. 14-18.
"Centre
communaitaire in Canada," by Britannia Design Architects, TECNIQUE ET
ARCHITECTURE, 1979, Vol. 318.
LA COMPLESSITA FUNZIONALE, by B.
De Sivo, E. Petroncelli, R. Cristiano, Dedalo libri, Bari, 1979.
THE
PASSIVE SOLAR ENERGY BOOK, by E. Mazria, Rodale Press, 1979.
"Analisis
Critico De PATTERN LANGUAGE," by Martin Dominguez, ARQUITECTURAS,
Set./Dic. 1979, Vol. 30/31, pp. 43-52.
"Filling the Space:
Recent Books on Architecture," by Cedric Price, ENCOUNTER, October 1979,
pp. 62-63.
"Improvisation within a Pattern: A Swedish
Community Designed its Housing Site and Each Family Designed Their Own
House," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, December 1979, pp. 106-107.
"Christopher
Alexander and The Pattern Language: From Theory to Reality," by Benjamin
Clavan, A+U, December 1979, pp. 87-98.
Reviews of THE TIMELESS
WAY OF BUILDING, by H. Ward Jandl, LIBRARY JOURNAL, June 15, 1978; LIBRARY
JOURNAL, Vol. 103, No. 1260, June 15, 1978; BOOKLIST, December 1, 1978;
Michael Sweeny, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, January 1979, p. 84; J. Baldwin, THE
CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Spring 1979, p. 136; KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN GAZETTE,
July 31, 1979; ENCOUNTER, Vol. 53, No. 59, October 1979;Bruce Donehower, EAST
WEST JOURNAL, November 1979, pp. 78-81; Robert Campbell, NEW AGE, November
1979, and BOSTON GLOBE, December 2, 1979; John Lobell, SKYLINE, February
1980, p. 10; CHOICE, Vol. 16, No. 1568, February 1980; HARVARD MAGAZINE,
March-April 1980; Dennis Michael Ryan, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PLANNING
ASSOCIATION, April 1980, pp. 223-225; RAIN, August/September 1980, pp. 8-9; G.
Stiny, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING 'B', 1981, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 119-120;
Francis Duffy, THE ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, London, March 11, 1981, p. 438; Juan
M. Valcarce, DOS PUNTOS, Buenos Aries, October/November 1981, No. 2, p. 59;
URBAN DESIGN QUARTERLY, December 1984/January 1985, p. 17; David Seamon,
IMPRESSIONS; JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION, Fall
1985, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 23-24.
"Patterns and
Bridges," by Leonard Olson, Jr., PERSPECTIVES ON ADAPTATION, ENVIRONMENT
AND POPULATION, John Calhoun, Ed., 1978.
"Das
Mexicali-Experiment: Alternativer Wohnungsbau," by Dorit Fromm, Martin
Just, Peter Bosselmann, BAUMEISTER, January 1978, pp. 33-37.
"The
Oregon Experiment in Practice," by J.D. Rowe, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, July
1978.
"Patterns Einer Stadtrandsiedlung - Lubeck
Roter-Lowe," by Klaus Jaerisch, Kay Marlow, Reinhard Muller,
Architekturabteilung der Tu Hannover, Lehrstuhl fur Baukonstruktion und
Entwerfen, Winter 1977/1978.
"Christopher Alexander,"
by Andrew Rabeneck, CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE, London, 1977, pp.
24-26.
"I sei principi di Christopher Alexander," by
B. Zevi, L'ARCHITETTURA, Vol. 259, 1977.
"La Contribucion
de Christopher Alexander," by Sergio Los, ESPACIOS CEPA, Argentina, 1977,
No. 6, pp. 68-72.
"Rhythm and Oneness," by David J.
Richmond, Comprehensive Examination for Christopher Alexander and Jean Pierre
Protzen, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley,
Spring 1977.
Reviews of A PATTERN LANGUAGE, by Martin Levine,
NEWSDAY: THE LONG ISLAND NEWSPAPER, September 1, 1977; Edw Lee Hammack,
unpublished, October 1977; Clare Cooper Marcus, CONCRETE, November 29, 1977,
Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 5; H. Ward Jandl, LIBRARY JOURNAL, December 1, 1977;
Robert Campbell, BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, December 4, 1977, p. A-10; Benjamin
Clavan, SMITHSONIAN, January 1978, pp. 106-109; Hugh Kenner, HARPER'S, April
1978, pp. 75-77; CHOICE, December 1978, p. 101; Professor Denis Harper,
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, January 1979, p. 18; Helaine S. Kaplan,
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, January 1979, pp. 83-84; J. Baldwin, THE CO-EVOLUTION
QUARTERLY, Spring 1979, p. 136; Francis Duffy, THE ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, September
12, 1979, pp. 541-542; John Lobell, SKYLINE, February 1980, p. 10; Dennis
Michael Ryan, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION, April 1980, pp.
223-225; RAIN, August/September 1980, pp. 8-9; Martha C. MacMillan, LOS
ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO MONITOR, November 20, 1980; Juan M. Valcarce, DOS PUNTOS,
Buenos Aries, October/November 1981, No. 2, p. 59; Stewart Brand, THE SAN
FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, in "The Chronicle Whole Earth Catalog,"
Wednesday, December 8, 1982, p. 6; Marilyn Green, OPEN CHAIN, July 1983; Marc
De Malsche, WONEN, 1984, No. 95, pp. 60-61; URBAN DESIGN QUARTERLY,
December 1984/January 1985, p. 17; David Seamon, IMPRESSIONS: JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION, Fall 1985, Vol. III, No. 3, pp.
23-24.
"The Poverty of the Pattern Language," by J.P.
Protzen, CONCRETE, November 1, 1977, Vol. 1, No. 6, beginning p. 1. Article
continued in CONCRETE, November 15, 1977, Vol. 1, No. 8, beginning p.
1.
"Chickens Without Heads: A Response to Protzen," by
Howard Davis, CONCRETE, November 8, 1977, Vol. 1, No. 7, beginning p.
1.
"A City is not a Semilattice Either," by F. Harary
and J. Rockey, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING, London, 1976, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.
375-384.
"The Hidecs Process," by S. Clark and D.
Elms, MINISTRY OF WORKS AND DEVELOPMENT, New Zealand, June 1976.
Reviews
of THE OREGON EXPERIMENT, by Robert Campbell, BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, November
14, 1976, p. B-2 and December 5, 1976; Dr. Walter Kleeman, Jr., THE DESIGNER,
May 1976, p. 17; Edw Lee Hammack, unpublished, October 1977; Benjamin Clavan,
SMITHSONIAN, January 1978, pp. 106-109; Robert Campbell, HARVARD MAGAZINE,
January-February 1978, p. 63; Hugh Kenner, HARPER'S, April 1978, pp. 75-77;
Professor Denis Harper, BUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, January 1979, p.
18; Michael Sweeny, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, January 1979, p. 84; J. Baldwin,
THE CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Spring 1979, p. 136; Francis Duffy, THE
ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, September 12, 1979, pp. 541-542; Kenneth S. Lynn, THE
AMERICAN SPECTATOR, Vol. 12, No. 12, December 1979, p. 19; John Lobell,
SKYLINE, February 1980, p. 10; Dennis Michael Ryan, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN
PLANNING ASSOCIATION, April 1980, pp. 223-225; RAIN, August/September 1980,
pp. 8-9.
"Christopher Alexander's Timeless Way of
Building," by K. Hirata, ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, 1975, Vol. 5, No. 3,
pp. 49-60.
Review of PEOPLE REBUILDING BERKELEY: THE
SELF-CREATING LIFE OF NEIGHBORHOODS, in THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN, Friday,
February 21, 1975, p. 17.
"Toward the Recognition of the
People's Housing Efforts: The Low-Income Housing Delivery System in
Bangkok," by Shlomo Angel, Stan Benjamin, Koos H. De Goede. A Paper
Presented to the Roving Workshop on Low-Cost Housing, Asian Institute of
Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, October 6-9, 1975.
"Team
Ten at Royaumont 1962," by P. Smithson, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, London,
November 1975, Vol. 45, pp. 664-689.
"A Planning Process
Case Study, Port Costa, California," by Colin McGlibery, et al, Diablo
Valley College, Spring 1974.
"Christopher Alexander,"
by David Elalouf, L'ARCHITECTURE D'AUJORD'HUI, July/August 1974, Vol. 174,
pp. 54-63.
"Face a Face: Alexander and Habraken," by
David Elalouf and Brian Brace Taylor, L'ARCHITECTURE D'AUJORD'HUI, July/August
1974, Vol. 174, pp. 72-73.
"Patterns Recognizing the
Importance of Water in the Environment," by Georgia Bizios, Master's
Thesis for the School of Architecture, University of Oregon, September
1974.
I METODI DEL DESIGN, by A. Rosselli, Milano, 1973.
"Last
Utopian Sensuales de Nuestro Tiempo," by Xavier Rubert de Ventos, TEORIA
Y SOCIEDAD, Barcelona, 1973, pp. 431-451.
"Pattern
Language: Communitarian Implications of Design in New Multi-Family Housing
Developments," by Calvin Jeung Lau, Master's Thesis in Architecture and
Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973.
I
MODELLI GRAFO-MATEMATICI E LA PROGETTAZIONE, by R. Del Nord, Clusf, Firenze,
1972.
THIRD GENERATION: THE CHANGING MEANING OF ARCHITECTURE, by Philip
Drew, Praeger Publishers, London, 1972.
"Client-Architect
Relationship With Christopher Alexander," an interview with Dr. Robert
Trotter, Music Dean, University of Oregon, AVENU, University of Oregon,
February 28, 1972, Vol. 1, No. 2.
"Monster i Marsta,"
by Johannes Olivegren, ARKITEKTUR, Stockholm, August 1972, No. 6, pp.
6-9.
"Monster for planering underifran," by Tord
Baeckstrom, GOTBORGS HANDELS-OCH SJOFARTS-TIDNING, Monday, August 28,
1972.
"Consultant Says Patients Should Help With Mental
Health Center Building," THE MODESTO BEE, Thursday, March 25, 1971, p.
A-6.
"New Architecture: Building for Man," by Douglas
Davis, NEWSWEEK, April 19, 1971, pp. 78-90.
"Systemes,
Cybernetique et Amenagement de l'Espace," by Geoffrey H. Broadbent,
JOURNEES: INFORMATIQUE ET CONCEPTION EN ARCHITECTURE, 1971, pp. 13-24.
"Christopher
Alexander ou le Mythe de la Creation Scientifique," by J. Dreyfus, LA VIE
URBAIR, France, 1971, No. 2, pp. 140-148.
"Christopher Alexander
og teorien om et monster-sprog (pattern language), by Jorgen Peder Nansen and
Martin Rubow, ARKITEKTEN, Denmark, 1971, Vol. 73, No. 22, pp. 477-487.
Review
of HOUSES GENERATED BY PATTERNS, by Paul Irgens, ARKITEKTNYTT, 1971, No. 13,
pp. 321-324.
Review of "The State of the Art in
Methodology," ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, December 1971.
"Behavioral
Models," by Claude Winkelhake, PROCEEDINGS OF THE KENTUCKY WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, University of Kentucky, 1971,
pp. 167-173.
"Pattern Language - The Contribution of
Christopher Alexander's Centre for Environmental Structure to the Science of
Design," by Roger Montgomery, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, New York, January
1970, Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 52-59.
"Centre for
Environmental Structure," ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, London, April 1970, pp.
193-196.
"PREVI/LIMA - Low Cost Housing Project," by
Carl Koch, Alfredo Perez, and Halldor Gunnlogsson, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN,
London, April 1970, pp. 187-189.
"A Progress Report on the
Pattern Language," by F. Duffy and J. Torrey, EMERGING METHODS IN
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND PLANNING, Gary T. Moore et al, editors, 1970, pp.
261-278.
"Alexander," TOSHI-JUTAKU 7007, Kajima
Institute Publishing Co., Ltd., July 1970, No. 27, pp. 71-80.
Review
of "The Atoms of Environmental Structure," by William Michelson,
DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT, Fall 1970.
"Alexander,"
TOSHI-JUTAKU 7009, September 1970, No. 29, pp. 89-93.
"Alexander,"
TOSHI-JUTAKU 7010, October 1970, No. 30, pp. 63-70.
"A
Study on Meaningful Interactions Which Define the Special Arrangement of Our
Environment," by Takeshi Inaba et all, TOSHI-JUTAKU 7011, November 1970,
No. 31, pp. 6-56.
"Alexander," ibid, pp.
63-72.
"Alexander, TOSHI-JUTAKU 7012, December 1970, No.
32, pp. 39-47.
"Rightness and Wrongness in the Physical
Environment," by A. Ward, DESIGN METHODS IN ARCHITECTURE, United
Kingdom, 1969, No. 4.
"Design Process and Methods: A
Partial Set of Notes from Architecture 345," by David Chapin and Janice
Biederman, Department of Architecture, Case Western Reserve University,
Spring 1969.
"Theory of Environmental Design, Complexity
VI," by Gunter Nitschke, TOSHI-JUTAKU, June 1969, No. 14, pp.
94-96.
"Patterns and Semiology," by Francis Duffy and
James Freeman, School of Architecture, Department of Anthropology, Princeton
University, July 1969.
Review of A PATTERN LANGUAGE WHICH
GENERATES MULTI-SERVICE CENTERS in QUARTERLY DIGEST OF
URBAN AND
REGIONAL RESEARCH, University of Illinois, September 1969, p. 48.
"Christopher
Alexander on Design Process," by Fumimasa Sugiyama. Graduation Thesis
from Tokyo Institute of Technology, December 1969.
Review of
SYSTEMS GENERATING SYSTEMS, in BAUMEISTER, 1968.
"Christopher
Alexander i OAF," dialogue with Dennis Crampton et all, ARKITECKTNYTT,
1968, No. 3, pp. 42-43.
DESIGN METHODS IN ARCHITECTURE, by
Geoffrey Broadbent and Tony Ward, Lund Humphries, London, 1968, throughout
10-160.
"Christopher Alexander," by David Clarke,
1968. Master of Architecture Thesis, University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon.
"Review of Christopher Alexander's Writings,"
by Takashi Asada, APPROACH, Spring 1968, pp. 22-27.
"The
Death of Beaux Arts: The Cal-Oregon Experiment in Design Education," by
M.A. Milne and C. Rusch, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, March 1968, pp.
78-83.
"Alexander e la strutturazione
dell'environment," by B. Raboni, COMUNITA, April 1968, Vol. 151.
"A
Plain Man's Guide to Systematic Design Methods," by Geoffrey Broadbent,
RIBAJ, May 1968, pp. 223-227.
"Christopher Alexander
Mausolees contre Computers," by G. Canella, L'ARCHITECTURE D'AUJORD'HUI,
France, September 1968, Vol. 39, pp. 4-7.
"A Look at
Christopher Alexander," by David Clarke, unpublished paper, University of
Oregon, December 3, 1968.
"HIDECS-RECOMP PROCEDURE,"
by Edward Bierstone and Allen Bernholtz, Department of Civil Engineering, MIT,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1967.
"The Burdens of the
Specialists," MANAS, June 28, 1967, Vol. 20, No. 26, beginning p.
1.
"Comments on 'The Pattern of Streets,'" by Daniel
H. Carson and Peter H. Roosen-Runge, JOURNAL OF THE AIP, November 1967, pp.
409-414.
"Note sul rapporto Planning-design in
America," by G. Gaetani, ZODIAC, Vol. 17, 1967.
"Lo
strutturalismo funzionale di Ch. Alexander," by M. Bottero, COMUNITA,
December 1967, Vol. 148-149.
Book reviews of NOTES ON THE
SYNTHESIS OF FORM, by Paul Weidlinger, ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, October 1964, p.
50; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS, by Edward J. Kaiser, February 1965, pp.
82-84; PRODUCT ENGINEERING, March 29, 1965, p. 104; ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
JOURNAL, by Raymond Studer, March 1965; INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, by Malcom Brookes,
March 1965, p. 20; ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, by Ian Poyner, March 1965,
p. 146; PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE, by R.H. Matrux, May 1965, p. 208; AMERICAN
INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, by Raymond G. Studer, Jr., June 1965, pp. 88-90;
unpublished paper by Paul Malo, Syracuse University, August 1968.
"Can
a Better City Spring From the Architect's Wand," by the Editor, THE
REDLANDS (CAL) DAILY FACTS, 1963.
"Pattern Language
Report," by Murray Silverstein, Center for Environmental
Structure.
VII.
TELEVISION, FILM AND RADIO BROADCASTS
NHK One-hour Special, "Christopher
Alexander and Chikusadai Housing Project," Japan Broadcasting Company,
June 18, 1992.
NHK Specials Series, "Japan! Where should
you go?" Vol. 6 "Discovery at Grass Roots Level," Japan
Broadcasting Company, December 8, 1991.
Monthly segment on
"Bay Area Arts," October 1990, September 1990, August 1990, July
1990, June 1990, May 1990, April 1990, March 1990, February 1990, January
1990, December 1989, November 1989, October 1989, September 1989, August
1989. KPFA Radio, Berkeley, California. Program hosted by Russ
Jennings.
"Places for the Soul: The Architecture of
Christopher Alexander," A film by Ruth Landy, Cinema Consultants, San
Francisco, 1990. Broadcast by KQED, San Francisco, January 22, 1992. Also
broadcast on Finnish Television, December 1991.
Radio Interview
with Sedge Thompson, guest-host of "Fresh Air," August 21, 1989,
WHYY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Monthly segment on "Bay
Area Arts," July 24, 1989, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, California. Program
hosted by Russ Jennings.
"Christopher Alexander,"
KPFA Radio, Berkeley, California, 1989. Two-part discussion. Produced by Greg
Saatkamp.
"Chris Alexander," Art Note #907, KQED
Television, Current Affairs Department, KQED, Inc., San Francisco,
1987.
VIII.
EXHIBITS
A HUMAN CITY (with Ronald Walkey, Murray
Silverstein, and others), PAVILION AT THE OSAKA WORLD'S FAIR, 1970.
"Ancient
Color and Geometry: Very Early Turkish Carpets of the Christopher Alexander
Collection," at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, California, November
10, 1990 - February 17, 1991.
"Forms Which Do Not Frighten
But Invite," sponsored by the University of Cambridge, Department of
Architecture, The Octagon Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England,
June 24 - August 6, 1989. Photos of projects displayed.
IX.
CONSULTANT POSITIONS HELD
1985 Advisor tothe Nordic council of
Ministers.
1985 Keynote address, ACSA convention. 1981 Invited Artist
at Forum Design, Linz, Austria. 1982 Chief Architect, The Eishin School,
Tokyo, Japan. 1980-82 Consultant to the State of Zulia, Venezuela, on Guasare
new town. 1979-82 Consultant to Government of Israel. 1975-82 Member,
Jerusalem Committee. 1979 Advisor to Citizens Commission on the North East
Waterfront, San Francisco. 1979 Consultant to Ministry of Education, Honduras.
1978 Government of Mexico, Infonavit, Consultant Architect. 1978 Government
of Israel, Jewish Agency and Ministry of Housing, Architect and Planner. 1976
Government of Papua, New Guinea, Ministry of Environment, Architect and
Consultant. 1976 John Lawrence Memorial Lecture, Tulane University. 1975
Fulbright lecture, University of the Sorbonnel, Paris. 1975 Keynote Address,
EDRA conference, University of Kansas. 1975-76 University of Mexico,
Mexicali, Mexico, Visiting Professor. 1975 Government of Spain, Ministry of
Information and Tourism, Consultant Architect. 1973 University lectures, Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm. 1970-73 University of Oregon, Master
Planner. 1971-present Member of the Jerusalem Committee. 1970 Designer of
theme exhibit, Osaka World's Fair. 1966-70 Associate Professor, Department of
Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. 1965-66 Government of
United Kingdom, Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, London, Consultant on
user needs. 1963-64 San Francisco, Bay Area Rapid Transit System, Consultant
Architect. 1963 Consultant to Arthur D. Little on urban housing for the City
of San Francisco. 1963 Assistant Professor, University of California. 1960-63
Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering Systems
Laboratory, Consultant. 1962 Government of Gujarat, India, Village Development
Planning. 1960-61 Research Associate, Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard
University. 1960-61 Instructor, Harvard University. 1959-60 Research
Assistant, Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard.
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