Christopher Alexander (1936~2022) 紀念 6影片 的著作；盈進學園 (中學)1987年建築研究所的小班共讀之回憶和反思 The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- Grabow, Stephen: Christopher Alexander: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1983. ISBN 0853621993
- The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- 1985 Best building in Japan Award, by the Japan Institute of Architects
- The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)
Published works[edit]
Alexander's published works include:
- Community and Privacy, with Serge Chermayeff (1963)
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
- A City is Not a Tree (1965)[47]
- The Atoms of Environmental Structure (1967)
- A Pattern Language which Generates Multi-service Centers, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1968)
- Houses Generated by Patterns (1969)
- The Grass Roots Housing Process (1973)[48]
- The Center for Environmental Structure Series, made up of:
- The Oregon Experiment (1975)
- A Pattern Language, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1977)
- The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
- The Linz Cafe (1981)
- The Production of Houses, with Davis, Martinez, and Corner (1985)
- A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987)
- Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets (1993)
- The Mary Rose Museum, with Black and Tsutsui (1995)
- The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)
- The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems, with Hans Joachim Neis and Maggie More Alexander (2012)
Alexander is known for many books on the design and construction process, including Notes on the Synthesis of Form, The City is Not a Tree (first published in paper form and republished in book form in 2015), Timeless Ways of Building, A A New Theory for Urban Design and the Oregon Experiment. He has recently published four volumes, The Essence of Order: Essays on the Art of Architecture and the Nature of the Universe, on his recent theory of the process of “morphogenesis”, and the fight for life and beauty on Earth, such as his theories in Japan implementation in a large construction project. All of his writings have developed or accumulated from his earlier writings, so his writings should be read as a whole, not as fragments. His lifetime work, or his best work, is The Essence of Order, on which he worked for about 30 years, and the first edition of The Essence of Order was made in 1981, There was a famous debate with Peter Eisenman a year ago. Harvard.
Alexander is probably best known for his 1977 book The Language of Patterns, which has remained well-loved about 4 years after its publication. Inferring that users are more sensitive to their needs than any architect, he produced and validated (with his students Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid King and Shlomo Angel) a “pattern language” , to empower anyone to design and build at any scale.
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (2)：
THE GOAL OF TEARS ( 含淚喜悅的境界 UNITY；SADNESS： Forlorn： 一、哀與寂) --
~ The Nature of Order (Book 4) : The Luminous Ground (2004) 第8章
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紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 、馬諦斯到我們的時代的創造
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 到我們的時代的創造
LIVING PROCESSES REPEATED TEN MILLION TIMES
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005) 前言 PREFACE
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紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：
THE TEN THOUSAND BEINGS ( ) --
~ The Nature of Order (Book 4) : The Luminous Ground (2004) 第4章
Chartres Cathedral. Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres.
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紀念 Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (4)：紐約時報的訃聞 Architect Who Humanized Urban Design；藝術史的線索和 顏色與內在光亮 。第一階段紀念文的反思；2040年再談他在The Center for Environmental Structure (登記為公司)出版的20本書？
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原先3.22 ，打算談The Nature of Order (Book 4) : The Luminous Ground (2004) 的兩章：藝術史的線索和 顏色與內在光亮 (原書80來頁)。
紐約時報的訃聞3.29 Architect Who Humanized Urban Design
When the first volume was published in 2003, the cultural critic Laura Miller, writing in The New York Times, described Mr. Alexander as a prophet without honor in his own profession whose books should be required reading.
After gamely making her way through the volume, Ms. Miller wrote, she found herself looking at familiar objects with new eyes: “Not as momentous as a new science, I’ll grant you, but a revelation all the same.”
Christopher Alexander (2008, Project for Public Spaces)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
Published works[edit]
Alexander's published works include:
- Community and Privacy, with Serge Chermayeff (1963)
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
- A City is Not a Tree (1965)[52]
- The Atoms of Environmental Structure (1967)
- A Pattern Language which Generates Multi-service Centers, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1968)
- Houses Generated by Patterns (1969)
- The Grass Roots Housing Process (1973)[53]
- The Center for Environmental Structure Series, made up of:
- The Oregon Experiment (1975)
- A Pattern Language, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1977)
"I'll tell you a story. I was in India in 1961. I was living in a village most of the time. I studied that village, tried to understand what village life was all about. And I got back to Harvard, a few months later, and I got a letter from the government of [the town in India], saying 'We've got to re-locate our village because of the dam construction. Would you like to build it?'. I think about 2000 people were being moved. And I thought about it. And then I was very sad. And I wrote back, and I said, 'You know, I don't know enough about how to do it. Because I don't want to come in and simply build a village, because I don't think that will make life. I know that the life has got to come from the people, as well as what's going on physically, geometrically. My experience of living in the village is that I do not know enough about how to actually make that happen. And therefore I very very regretfully decline your kind offer.' And I was actually chagrined beyond measure, that I had to give that reply. But it was honest, and in fact, it was because of that letter that I wrote A Pattern Language. Because, I thought and thought, and I said, 'You know, this is crazy. What would I have to do, to put in people's hands the thing with which they could do this, so that it would be like a real village and not like an architect's fantasy?"
- The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
- The Linz Cafe (1981)
- The Production of Houses, with Davis, Martinez, and Corner (1985)
- A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987)
- Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets (1993)
- The Mary Rose Museum, with Black and Tsutsui (1995)
- The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)
Perspectives
The Phenomenon of Life (Nature of Order Book One). Alexander proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. With this view as a foundation, we can ask precise questions about what must be done to create more life in our world -- whether in a room, a humble doorknob, a neighborhood, or even in a vast region. He introduces the concept of living structure, basing it upon his theories of centers and of wholeness, and defines the fifteen properties from which, according to his observations, all wholeness is built. Alexander argues that living structure is at once both personal and structural.
The Process of Creating Life (Nature of Order Book Two). In the 20th century our society was locked into deadly processes which created our current built environment, processes of which most people were not really aware and did not question. Despite their best efforts and intentions, architects and planners working within these processes, could not achieve a living built environment. In this book, Alexander puts forward a fully developed theory of living process. He defines conditions for a process to be living: that is, capable of generating living structure. He shows how such processes work, and how they may be created. At the core of the new theory is the theory of structure-preserving transformations. This concept, new in scientific thinking, is based on the concept of wholeness defined in Book 1: A structure-preserving transformation is one which preserves, extends, and enhances the wholeness of a system. Making changes in society, so that streets, buildings, rooms, gardens, towns may be generated by hundreds of such sequences, requires massive transformations. This book is the first blueprint of those transformations.
A Vision of a Living World (Nature of Order Book Three). Providing hundreds of examples of buildings and places, this volume demonstrates proposes forms for large buildings, public spaces, communities, neighborhoods, which then lead to discussions about the equally important small scale of detail and ornament and color. With these examples, laypeople, architects, builders, artists, and students are able to make this new framework real for themselves, for their own lives, and understand how it works and its significance.
The Luminous Ground (Nature of Order Book Four). The mechanistic thinking and the consequent investment-oriented tracts of houses, condominiums and offices in the 20th century have dehumanized our cities and our lives. How are spirit, soul, emotion, feeling to be introduced into a building, or a street, or a development project, in modern times? In this final text, Alexander breaks away completely from the one-sided mechanical model of buildings or neighborhoods as mere assemblages of technically generated interchangeable parts. He shows us conclusively that a spiritual, emotional, and personal basis must underlie every act of building. This radical view can conform to our most ordinary, daily intuitions. It may provide a path for those contemporary scientists who are beginning to see consciousness as the underpinning of all matter, and thus as a proper object of scientific study. And it will change, forever, our conception of what buildings are.
- The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems, with Hans Joachim Neis and Maggie More Alexander (2012)
Unpublished:[54]
- Sustainability and Morphogenesis (working title)[55]
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命創作過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 、馬諦斯到我們的時代的創造
https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/1183322035805417
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 、馬諦斯到我們的時代的創造
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 到我們的時代的創造
LIVING PROCESSES REPEATED TEN MILLION TIMES
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005) 前言 PREFACE
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紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：
THE TEN THOUSAND BEINGS ( ) --
~ The Nature of Order (Book 4) : The Luminous Ground (2004) 第4章
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CA5 企圖: 略讀The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life 1/11:一些故事；第1章，同書名. 第5次淺談Christopher Alexander (1936~2022)
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The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
兩圖
1.大雁塔（だいがんとう、拼音: Dàyàn tǎ）とは、652年に唐の高僧玄奘三蔵がインドから持ち帰った経典や仏像などを保存するために、高宗に申し出て建立した塔。中華人民共和国陝西省西安市雁塔区にある大慈恩寺の境内に建っている7層64mの仏塔である。
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda.jpg
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
第11頁圖說有誤，非湖南
2. The Linz Cafe (1981) 其中某牆面？
故事
Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964) 的印度村落；婉拒遷村設計；發現解決之道
A Pattern Language, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1977)
觀電影30分：答pattern language
關於聖Theresa (西班牙)
現在網路多I dare not utter the words and thoughts that crowd my heart, afraid to uncover them because of the blasphemy. If there be God, please forgive me. When I try to raise my thoughts to heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul.Aug 25, 2007
Mother Theresa's Doubts - NPR
圖書卡的學問 內有藝術史......COLOR、PROCESS PHILOSOPHY 等
世界觀
營造、建築，同物理學、生物學，是大學問
感覺：人類90 %相同的"美"之感受
何謂美，何謂 ORDER
更寬廣的"生命"意義
從千萬圖/照片，找出 CENTERS、WHOLENESS、觀察、寫下.....
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CA6 略讀The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life 2/11: DEGREES OF LIFE 設計的人氣？挑戰既有教育意識形態？
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Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022)
紀念 Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (4)：紐約時報的訃聞 Architect Who Humanized Urban Design；藝術史的線索和 顏色與內在光亮 。
Alexander attended the Dragon School in Oxford and then the Oundle School.[18] In 1954, he was awarded the top open scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University in chemistry and physics, and went on to read mathematics. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Master's degree in Mathematics. He took his doctorate at Harvard (the first PhD in Architecture ever awarded at Harvard University). His dissertation "The Synthesis of Form: Some Notes on a Theory" was completed in 1962.[20] He was elected fellow at Harvard. During the same period he worked at MIT in transportation theory and computer science, and worked at Harvard in cognition and cognitive studies.[citation needed]
Design science[edit]
The life's work of Alexander is dedicated to turn design from unselfconscious behavior to selfconscious behavior, so called design science.[citation needed] In his very first book Notes on the Synthesis of Forms, he has set what he wanted to do. He was inspired by traditional buildings, and tried to derive some 253 patterns for architectural design. Later on, he further distills 15 geometric properties to characterize living structure in The Nature of Order. The design principles are differentiation and adaptation.
高速公路上的招牌語義不詳 SIGNS, OUT OF THE CRISIS By DEMING
The frame is in the form of three "D" shapes stacked one atop another and which occupy the entire right half of the page. The spaces between the curves of the "D" shapes are filled with triangular knots. The "D" shapes themselves are decorated orange dots superposed on yellow interlace patterns. The pattern of the interlace is different on each of the "D" shapes. This frame represents the first appearance in an Insular manuscript of interlace, a motif which will assume enormous importance in later manuscripts. The frame encloses the explicit for Matthew, the incipit for Mark, and the text of the pater noster* in Greek, but written in Latin letters.
(in the Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer, especially in Latin.
框架的形式是三個“D”形，一個一個疊在一起，佔據了整個頁面的右半部分。 “D”形曲線之間的空間充滿了三角形結。 “D”形本身是裝飾在黃色交錯圖案上的橙色圓點。 每個“D”形的交錯圖案都不同。 這個框架代表了第一次出現在島嶼交錯手稿中，這一主題在後來的手稿中將變得非常重要。 框架包含了 Matthew 的顯式*、Mark 的開頭和 pater noster 的希臘文文本，但用拉丁字母書寫。
*explicit
References[edit]
- Nordenfalk, Carl. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book illumination in the British Isles 600–800. New York: George Braziller, 1977.
- Wilson, David M.; Anglo-Saxon Art: From The Seventh Century To The Norman Conquest, Thames and Hudson (US edn. Overlook Press), 1984.
the closing words of a text, manuscript, early printed book, or chanted liturgical text.
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