1st Edition
Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander Thinking, Building, Writing
Preface
PART 1: THE LARGE AND SMALL DETAILS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
1. Perception and modular coordination 1959
2. Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Contents, Preface and Part One in early draft 1960
3. The Nature of Order, Book One, section on local symmstries 2001
4. On changing the way people see 1964
5. From a set of forces to a form 1966
6. Center for Environmental Structure seminar report, excerpt, 1967
7. Early ideas for the pattern language format 1967-68
8. Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands 1969
9. The atoms of environmental structure 1970
PART 2 : FROM THE CENTER TO THE UNIVERSE
10. Value: a reply to Protzen 1977
11. Centering 1977
12. A shrine to color and light 1990
13. OOPSLA lecture 1996
14. Reply to William Saunders 2002
15. Our new architecture and the many world cultures 2002
16. Harmony-seeking computations 2005
17. Conversation with Rem Koolhaas 2006
PART 3: THEORY INTO BUILDING
18. The grassroots housing process 1973
19. The growth of order from small acts 1974
20. The architect-builder: toward changing the conception of what an architect is 1977
21. Rebirth of the Inner City: The North Omaha Plan, excerpts 1981
22. The construction of new neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela, excerpts 1983
23. Toward a personal workplace, excerpt 1987
24. Construction management contract 1994
25. Battle, unpublished chapter 2010
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Index
Biography
Howard Davis is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. He is the author of three books: The Culture of Building, Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life and Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production. Davis worked with Christopher Alexander for seven years, was the co-author with Alexander and others of The Production of Houses, and is presently an advisor in the development of a comprehensive archive of Alexander’s work.
