🏛 Christopher Alexander
Exploring "the nature of order"
Architect and so much more.
Wrote The Nature Of Order to address issues he found while experimenting with A Pattern Language.
His interviews in Life in Buildings where he discusses The Nature Of Order shares his world views in the last years of his life.
Alternative Architecture
12 Volumes outlining an entirely new attitude on architecture and building (not his complete works):
- Volume 1 The Timeless Way of Building
- Volume 2 A Pattern Language
- Volume 3 The Oregon Experiment
- Volume 4 The Linz Cafe
- Volume 5 The Production of Houses
- Volume 6 A New Theory of Urban Design
- Volume 7 A Foreshading of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkisk Carpets
- Volume 8. The Mary Museum
Volumes 9 to 12 The Nature Of Order is a four volume work:
- The Phenomenon of Life
- The Process of Creating Life
- A Vision of a Living World
- Luminous Ground
References
Can we speak objectively about subjective experience?
🐤 Lil Essays
Christopher Alexander makes the case for the objectivity in the "aliveness" of built environments.
🏞️ Media Stream
Where Christopher Alexander discusses the course of his life's work in architecture and how it ultimately led him to God.
The Nature of Order
Life is created and sustained by fifteen fundamental transformations
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Frameworks
A four volume work by Christopher Alexander.
The Phenomenon of Life
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Note: I miss the incredible progressive summarization that Christopher Alexander used in The Timeless Way of Building.
❄️ A Pattern Language
Make spaces come alive
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Written by Christopher Alexander in 1977.
👉 About This Site
The name of this site, Smooth Unfolding is a play on a concept from Christopher Alexander in his 4 volume work The Nature of Order.
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Chistopher Alexander et al
Get your mind and your environment right.
This is Christopher Alexander's whole thing
✒️ Posts,
Claims
If inner work makes your mind and subconscious whole and well. Then Christopher Alexander wants to show us a process and language to make our environments whole and well. And, this environmental work is just as important as inner work. It has as much an affect on our wellbeing as our mental state.
Life in Buildings
"Christopher Alexander, architect, author, and seminal late 20th Century design theorist, had an outsize influence far beyond the world of architecture. This film includes interviews with the man, as well as an overview of his ideas and built projects."
The Timeless Way of Building
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A book by Christopher Alexander.