- Grabow, Stephen: Christopher Alexander: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1983. ISBN 0853621993
- The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- 1985 Best building in Japan Award, by the Japan Institute of Architects
- The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)
Published works[edit]
Alexander's published works include:
- Community and Privacy, with Serge Chermayeff (1963)
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
- A City is Not a Tree (1965)[47]
- The Atoms of Environmental Structure (1967)
- A Pattern Language which Generates Multi-service Centers, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1968)
- Houses Generated by Patterns (1969)
- The Grass Roots Housing Process (1973)[48]
- The Center for Environmental Structure Series, made up of:
- The Oregon Experiment (1975)
- A Pattern Language, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1977)
- The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
- The Linz Cafe (1981)
- The Production of Houses, with Davis, Martinez, and Corner (1985)
- A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987)
- Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets (1993)
- The Mary Rose Museum, with Black and Tsutsui (1995)
- The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)
- The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems, with Hans Joachim Neis and Maggie More Alexander (2012)
Alexander is known for many books on the design and construction process, including Notes on the Synthesis of Form, The City is Not a Tree (first published in paper form and republished in book form in 2015), Timeless Ways of Building, A A New Theory for Urban Design and the Oregon Experiment. He has recently published four volumes, The Essence of Order: Essays on the Art of Architecture and the Nature of the Universe, on his recent theory of the process of “morphogenesis”, and the fight for life and beauty on Earth, such as his theories in Japan implementation in a large construction project. All of his writings have developed or accumulated from his earlier writings, so his writings should be read as a whole, not as fragments. His lifetime work, or his best work, is The Essence of Order, on which he worked for about 30 years, and the first edition of The Essence of Order was made in 1981, There was a famous debate with Peter Eisenman a year ago. Harvard.
Alexander is probably best known for his 1977 book The Language of Patterns, which has remained well-loved about 4 years after its publication. Inferring that users are more sensitive to their needs than any architect, he produced and validated (with his students Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid King and Shlomo Angel) a “pattern language” , to empower anyone to design and build at any scale.
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