It’s Time for World Architecture to Learn from Christopher Alexander: Discovering Humanity’s Relationship with the Universe
This is a commentary on Per Galle’s review of the work of Christopher Alexander. Galle covers the classic book A Pattern Language and the later four-volume The Nature of Order. Alexander spent many decades deriving a geometrical basis for beauty. The design tools he introduced create humane and livi...
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| description | This is a commentary on Per Galle’s review of the work of Christopher Alexander. Galle covers the classic book A Pattern Language and the later four-volume The Nature of Order. Alexander spent many decades deriving a geometrical basis for beauty. The design tools he introduced create humane and living architecture, by adapting to the human body and sensibilities. Alexander discards the postwar ideology pretending that beauty is meaningless, subjective, existing only in the eye of the beholder. This provocative material re-defines architecture. Alexander has always struck a sympathetic chord with non-architects. Galle clarifies the innovative strands of Alexander’s thought for the average practitioner and reader. Implementing them could completely re-orient the way we build all over the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-183111f3a9414331aea382c43c9314d52022-12-22T00:23:56ZengElsevierShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation2405-87262020-01-0163376380It’s Time for World Architecture to Learn from Christopher Alexander: Discovering Humanity’s Relationship with the UniverseNikos A. Salingaros0Corresponding author.; The University of Texas at San Antonio, USAThis is a commentary on Per Galle’s review of the work of Christopher Alexander. Galle covers the classic book A Pattern Language and the later four-volume The Nature of Order. Alexander spent many decades deriving a geometrical basis for beauty. The design tools he introduced create humane and living architecture, by adapting to the human body and sensibilities. Alexander discards the postwar ideology pretending that beauty is meaningless, subjective, existing only in the eye of the beholder. This provocative material re-defines architecture. Alexander has always struck a sympathetic chord with non-architects. Galle clarifies the innovative strands of Alexander’s thought for the average practitioner and reader. Implementing them could completely re-orient the way we build all over the world.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872620300484Architecturebeautydesign patternshuman-centered design |
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| title | It’s Time for World Architecture to Learn from Christopher Alexander: Discovering Humanity’s Relationship with the Universe |
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| title_short | It’s Time for World Architecture to Learn from Christopher Alexander: Discovering Humanity’s Relationship with the Universe |
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