Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander : Thinking, Building, Writing (Hardcover)

Preface PART1: 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 PART2 : 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 PART3: 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 Battle, unpublished chapter 2010 Bibliography Illustration credits Index