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	Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander makes great use of the human sciences to derive patterns for buildings in the same way that he did when considering the importance of communities and there role in urban planning.
		Alexander urges the designer to look beyond the confines of the project and recognise the responsibilities which are inherent in any position of power.
		Another consequence of Alexander's construction of a lattice from a root which has a global perspective on the function of design is to include a number of professions which are not normally thought of as designers.
	www.arch.usyd.edu.au /~rob/study/PatternLanguage.html (1980 words)

	Christopher Alexander Visits The Oregon Experiment
		Alexander wrote that "all decisions about what to build, and how to build it, will be in the hands of the users." This meant, among other things, that students, faculty and staff destined to use a new building would design it themselves, with the help of architect-facilitators.
		Alexander has found that windows and dormers are best sized and situated on site, where the best shape and placement can be determined according to view, light, effect on rooms, etc. Above right, one of the most striking features of the Agate housing are the many grand old trees that were preserved.
		Alexander, unaware of all this, was abused by the administration towards these ends, as demonstrated by the University’s mad efforts to push up the cost of his buildings.
	www.rainmagazine.com /architecture/oregonex2.html (4918 words)

	Christopher Alexander \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christopher Alexander was born in Vienna, Austria in 1936.
		Alexander was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996, is a fellow of the Swedish Royal Society, and has received innumerable architectural prizes and honors, including the gold medal for research from the American Institute of Architects, awarded in 1970.
		Alexander’s biography, Christopher Alexander: The Evolution of a New Paradigm in Architecture, by Stephen Grabow, was published in London and Boston in 1983 and in Japan in 1989.
	www.pps.org /info/placemakers/calexander (4123 words)

	Christopher Alexander
		Christopher Alexander was born in Vienna, Austria, and raised in Oxford and Chichester, England.
		Christopher Alexander is a Trustee of the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture.
		Alexander's thoughts on interior design, and especially for the office environment and furniture, are discussed on a separate webpage.
	www.math.utsa.edu /sphere/salingar/Chris.text.html (3088 words)

	Christopher Alexander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an architect, noted for his design of building complexes in California, Japan, and Mexico.
		Alexander is based in England, where he is a licensed contractor and architect.
		Alexander's mathematical concepts and orientation were similar to Edsger Dijkstra's influential A Discipline of Programming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Alexander (1001 words)

	Gallery: The Work of Christopher Alexander and Colleagues
		Alexander’s buildings shows that these powerful ideas on morphogenesis are not armchair theory, but produce real, tangible results, in the human richness of the built environment.
		Alexander the artist and architect can be fully informed by Alexander the mathematician and physicist, and vice versa.
		Alexander, student at Harvard during Gropius' tenure, may in fact now be the most avant-garde modernist: ready to complete the unfinished, crude, primitive project, and take it into a new world of biological richness.
	www.katarxis3.com /Gallery.htm (1317 words)

	Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
		Alexander's central premise, driving over thirty years of thoughts, actions, and writings, is that there is something fundamentally wrong with twentieth century architectural design methods and practices.
		Since the early 1970s Alexander has experimented with several overall development processes that preserve the integrity and promises of pattern-based design, as applied to projects at all scales, including houses, a cafe, a medical facility, apartments, two universities, a rural housing community, and an urban community [5,29,3,9,6,7,8].
		Alexander grammatically arranges pattern entries (although in an implicit fashion) to exploit the generative properties of formal languages [29].
	g.oswego.edu /dl/ca/ca/ca.html (5016 words)

	RUDI: bookshelf: classics : City is not a tree: Remarks on a city's composition by Nikos A. Salingaros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christopher Alexander's "A City is Not a Tree".
		Alexander found that a living city is modeled by a mathematical semilattice, in contrast to a dead city, which is modeled by a tree.
		Alexander makes a point in "A City is Not a Tree" that the design of the then new Lincoln Center in Manhattan is fundamentally flawed (Alexander, 1965).
	www.arq.ufmg.br /rcesar/alex/remarkscity.cfm (6515 words)

	OVERVIEW OF THE NATURE OF ORDER
		Starting with an analysis of the arbitrariness of present-day architecture, and going to the root of functional order in the world, he proposes a scientific basis for looking at life as an objective concept that is rooted in structure.
		In Book 2, Alexander examines the kinds of process that are capable of generating living structure.
		In Book 3 Alexander presents hundreds of his own buildings and those of other contemporaries who have used similar methods consistent with the theory of living process.
	www.natureoforder.com /overview.htm (1166 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Production of Houses: Livres en anglais: Christopher Alexander,Howard Davis,Julio Martinez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander now gives us the latest book in his series--a book that puts his theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment he has envisioned.
		In the last part of the book, "The Shift of Paradigm," Alexander describes, in detail, the devastating nature of the revolution in world view which is contained in his proposal for housing construction, and its overall implications for deep-seated cultural change.
		Christopher Alexander, winner of the first medal for research ever awarded by the American Institute of Architects, is a practicing architect and contractor, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Environmental Structure.
	www.amazon.fr /Production-Houses-Christopher-Alexander/dp/0195032233 (488 words)

	Who is who @ Mediamatic - Christopher Alexander
		Center for Environmental Structure's founder, architect Christopher Alexander was a speaker at the Doors of Perception 2 @Home conference, where his focus on the quality of life aspects of traditional building - explained in a paper called Domestic Architecture - both enraged some and enchanted others.
		Christopher Alexander is the author of among others The Timeless Way of Building (Oxford University Press, New York, 1979) and A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, New York, 1977).
		This idea may imply a radical transformation of the architectural profession, but it emerges quite simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.
	www.mediamatic.nl /whoiswho/alexander/index.html (188 words)

	UNAMA - Overview - Briography of Christopher Alexander, DSRSG(PA)
		Christopher Alexander is one of the two Deputy Special Representatives of the Secretary General for Afghanistan appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan.
		Alexander is responsible for political issues, including continuing electoral and parliamentary issues, as well as issues related to peace and stability, security sector reform, and human rights.
		Alexander was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2005.
	www.unama-afg.org /about/DSRSG(PA).htm (200 words)

	Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order
		Far-reaching results on urban planning were given some years ago in Alexander's famous article "A City is Not a Tree" (see the article by Roger Evans in the Urban Design Quarterly), and in the Pattern Language and A New Theory of Urban Design.
		Alexander has discovered the process that governs the growth of a successful city -- which is the same process by which organic and inorganic forms evolve.
		The Alexander books are the most exciting thing I have read in a long time, and I think Alexander has made a SIGNIFICANT contribution to modern philosophy in general.
	www.math.utsa.edu /sphere/salingar/NatureofOrder.html (1400 words)

	Christopher Alexander
		Christopher Alexander (http://www.mediamatic.nl/whoiswho/alexander/index.html) is an architect and professor emeritus at CalBerkeley.
		Alexander was interviewed on the November 5th, 2000 program of Weekend Edition on NPR.
		Years ago Alexander said that, no, his methods were not working for other architects, even though the people applying his methods thought they had succeeded -- they were wrong (this is extremely ironic, since his older stuff is what has been most influential in software circles).
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?ChristopherAlexander (1077 words)

	Christopher Alexander - Great Buildings Online
		Cristopher Alexander was born in Vienna, Austria in 1936.
		In the late 1980's Alexander started to develop a further theoretical basis for good design based on a careful definition of "wholeness", or a kind of deep and abiding beauty.
		Christopher Alexander with Howard Davis, Julio Martinez, Donald Corner.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Christopher_Alexander.html (417 words)

	Christopher Alexander
		Christopher Alexander is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
		He is the father of the Pattern Language movement in computer science, and A Pattern Language, a seminal work that was perhaps the first complete book ever written in hypertext fashion.
		Alexander was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996, is a fellow of the Swedish Royal Society, has been the recipient of innumerable architectural prizes and honors including the gold medal for research of the American Institute of Architects, awarded in 1970.
	www.patternlanguage.com /leveltwo/ca.htm (276 words)

	Patterns: The Road, Christopher Alexander, and Good Software Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander has an impressive list of credentials and has written several books, the most famous being A Pattern Language [Alexander77] and The Timeless Way of Building [Alexander 79].
		Alexander illustrates failures in the sensitivity of contemporary methods to the actual requirements and conditions surrounding their development.
		If Alexander were working as a programmer, he would probably respond to this goal as a close relative of the quality without a name or wholeness.
	members.cox.net /risingl1/articles/goodsoft.htm (2728 words)

	NPR : Christopher Alexander's 'Nature of Order'
		In his research, Alexander found that people are almost always in agreement about whether a space has life or not.
		All Things Considered, January 29, 2005 · In the late 1970s, Christopher Alexander became an icon in the architecture world with his book, A Pattern Language.
		Theorizing that order is inherent in both nature and manmade spaces, Alexander attempts to define and understand the essence of a "living" structure.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4469331 (249 words)

	Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language (RJO's Reviews)
		Alexander and his colleagues are successful because they take an empirical approach to architecture.
		I am an advocate of decentralized residential colleges within large universities as a way to improve the quality of campus life.
		I was pleased to find most of the specific structures that I have been trying to promote within universities included among Alexander’s patterns, and to find many of them refined and improved upon.
	rjohara.net /reviews/alexander (392 words)

	village voice > books > Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order by Jeff Byles
		Alexander has a beef with the whole trajectory of architecture after, oh, say, 1600—when the visionary architect-genius swaggered onto the scene.
		Moreover, Alexander delivers a swift kick of the Birkenstock to the legacy of Descartes—the idea of the world as an intricately ordered machine in which we're merry little cogs.
		Hold on, because Alexander's an architectural Aldous Huxley, kicking down the doors of perception and finding, out there, beyond the Wal-Marts and Hummer dealerships, "a vision of the world as a horn of shimmering plenty in which the 'new' grows unceasingly from the structure that exists around us already." Dude, whoa.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0621,byles,73284,10.html (889 words)

	Hypercom's CEO Christopher S. Alexander Talks to The Wall Street Transcript Business Wire - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wall Street Transcript has published an in-depth interview with Christopher Alexander, president and CEO of Hypercom (NYSE:HYC), in which he talks at length about the company's future.
		Alexander gave an overview of the company: "Hypercom was founded in Australia in 1978 as a provider of telephone products.
		Alexander explained: "Hypercom is the leading global provider of electronic payment solutions that add value at the point-of-sale for consumers, merchants and acquirers, and yield increased profitability for its customers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Feb_19/ai_83062451 (380 words)

	Christopher Alexander, William Burroughs, HyperText
		I had posted some info on Chris Alexander's _A Pattern Language_, a book Eno is known to have found interesting.
		Alexander's writings in an interview on KPFA in Berkeley in 1988.
		Alexander, possibly a Nova episode, and she was fascinated enough to seek out two books by him.
	music.hyperreal.org /artists/brian_eno/calex2.html (1876 words)

	Quality without a name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The quality without a name (QWAN) is a phrase used by Christopher Alexander in his book The Timeless Way of Building.
		These words are related to the Quality, but Alexander feels they fail to truly capture the Quality without a name.
		Alexander's work has strongly affected a variety of discipines, including architecture, urban planning, and software engineering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quality_without_a_name (374 words)

	Powell's Books - A Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.
		This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
		Christopher Alexander, winner of the first medal for research ever awarded by the American Institute of Architects, is a practicing architect and builder, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Environmental Structure.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0195024028-11 (357 words)

	Christopher Alexander (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christopher Alexander (http://www.mediamatic.nl.cob-web.org:8888/whoiswho/alexander/index.html) is an architect and professor emeritus at CalBerkeley.
		Alexander has his own web site at http://www.PatternLanguage.com.cob-web.org:8888/.
		DougLea wrote a good review [http://g.oswego.edu.cob-web.org:8888/dl/ca/ca/ca.html] of Alexander's work from the point of view of SoftwareEngineering.
	c2.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cgi/wiki?ChristopherAlexander (1077 words)

	Christopher Alexander
		In his book, Alexander shows that in the design process, a design stabilizes when there are no more "misfit variables".
		In 1963 Alexander published reports describing "the hierarchical decomposition of systems which have an associated linear graph".
		Christopher Alexander is currently at The Center for Environmental Structure, UC Berkeley.
	www.lclark.edu /~miller/ca.html (772 words)

	Amazon.com: The Timeless Way of Building: Books: Christopher Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		by Christopher Alexander "It is a process through which the order of a building or a town grows out directly from the inner nature of the people, and..." (more)
		This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment).
		Alexander's idea is to identify those ``conflicting forces'', and then find a solution which brings them into harmony.
	amazon.com /Timeless-Way-Building-Christopher-Alexander/dp/0195024028 (2304 words)

	Pattern Language
		Christopher Alexander coined the term "PatternLanguage" to emphasize his belief that people had an innate ability for design that paralleled their ability to speak.
		A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings Construction by Christopher Alexander etc ISBN 0195019199.
		It seems that the best way of building a community that follows Alexander's principles is to accept responsibility for your own space and to apply his PatternLanguage within that space.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?PatternLanguage (986 words)

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