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4 unusual facts about Christopher Alexander


A Place of My Own

The next chapter follows the design process, including references to Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language.

Athens Concert Hall

The design of the 8,000 square meters floor was performed by Christopher Alexander; the process of designing and laying the floor and its result are described in his work The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.

Form-based code

Architect Christopher Alexander published A Pattern Language in 1977, a compendium of physical rules for designing humane buildings and places.

Urban morphology

The scientist Christopher Alexander and the mathematician Nikos Salingaros have created a new school of urban morphology based on morphogenesis and emergence.


Bruce Mau

Zone 1/2: The Contemporary City, a complex compendium of critical thinking about urbanism from philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and Paul Virilio, architects Rem Koolhaas and Christopher Alexander remains one of his most notable works.

Organizational patterns

The pattern aspect of Kroeber's view fits very well the systems-thinking pattern view of Christopher Alexander in the field of architecture.


see also

Wadsworth Chapel

Designed by J. Lee Burton, Wadsworth Chapel had been called an "intricate little jewel box" by Christopher Alexander, the associate curator of architecture for the Getty Research Institute.