紀念 Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (4)：紐約時報的訃聞 Architect Who Humanized Urban Design；藝術史的線索和 顏色與內在光亮 。第一階段紀念文的反思；2040年再談他在The Center for Environmental Structure (登記為公司)出版的20本書？
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原先3.22 ，打算談The Nature of Order (Book 4) : The Luminous Ground (2004) 的兩章：藝術史的線索和 顏色與內在光亮 (原書80來頁)。
紐約時報的訃聞3.29 Architect Who Humanized Urban Design
When the first volume was published in 2003, the cultural critic Laura Miller, writing in The New York Times, described Mr. Alexander as a prophet without honor in his own profession whose books should be required reading.
After gamely making her way through the volume, Ms. Miller wrote, she found herself looking at familiar objects with new eyes: “Not as momentous as a new science, I’ll grant you, but a revelation all the same.”
Christopher Alexander (2008, Project for Public Spaces)
https://www.pps.org/article/calexander
維基百科簡介Christopher Alexander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
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)[52]
- 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)[53]
The Center for Environmental Structure 登記為公司
- The Center for Environmental Structure Series, made up of:
"I'll tell you a story. I was in India in 1961. I was living in a village most of the time. I studied that village, tried to understand what village life was all about. And I got back to Harvard, a few months later, and I got a letter from the government of [the town in India], saying 'We've got to re-locate our village because of the dam construction. Would you like to build it?'. I think about 2000 people were being moved. And I thought about it. And then I was very sad. And I wrote back, and I said, 'You know, I don't know enough about how to do it. Because I don't want to come in and simply build a village, because I don't think that will make life. I know that the life has got to come from the people, as well as what's going on physically, geometrically. My experience of living in the village is that I do not know enough about how to actually make that happen. And therefore I very very regretfully decline your kind offer.' And I was actually chagrined beyond measure, that I had to give that reply. But it was honest, and in fact, it was because of that letter that I wrote A Pattern Language. Because, I thought and thought, and I said, 'You know, this is crazy. What would I have to do, to put in people's hands the thing with which they could do this, so that it would be like a real village and not like an architect's fantasy?"
- 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)
Perspectives
The Phenomenon of Life (Nature of Order Book One). Alexander proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. With this view as a foundation, we can ask precise questions about what must be done to create more life in our world -- whether in a room, a humble doorknob, a neighborhood, or even in a vast region. He introduces the concept of living structure, basing it upon his theories of centers and of wholeness, and defines the fifteen properties from which, according to his observations, all wholeness is built. Alexander argues that living structure is at once both personal and structural.
The Process of Creating Life (Nature of Order Book Two). In the 20th century our society was locked into deadly processes which created our current built environment, processes of which most people were not really aware and did not question. Despite their best efforts and intentions, architects and planners working within these processes, could not achieve a living built environment. In this book, Alexander puts forward a fully developed theory of living process. He defines conditions for a process to be living: that is, capable of generating living structure. He shows how such processes work, and how they may be created. At the core of the new theory is the theory of structure-preserving transformations. This concept, new in scientific thinking, is based on the concept of wholeness defined in Book 1: A structure-preserving transformation is one which preserves, extends, and enhances the wholeness of a system. Making changes in society, so that streets, buildings, rooms, gardens, towns may be generated by hundreds of such sequences, requires massive transformations. This book is the first blueprint of those transformations.
A Vision of a Living World (Nature of Order Book Three). Providing hundreds of examples of buildings and places, this volume demonstrates proposes forms for large buildings, public spaces, communities, neighborhoods, which then lead to discussions about the equally important small scale of detail and ornament and color. With these examples, laypeople, architects, builders, artists, and students are able to make this new framework real for themselves, for their own lives, and understand how it works and its significance.
The Luminous Ground (Nature of Order Book Four). The mechanistic thinking and the consequent investment-oriented tracts of houses, condominiums and offices in the 20th century have dehumanized our cities and our lives. How are spirit, soul, emotion, feeling to be introduced into a building, or a street, or a development project, in modern times? In this final text, Alexander breaks away completely from the one-sided mechanical model of buildings or neighborhoods as mere assemblages of technically generated interchangeable parts. He shows us conclusively that a spiritual, emotional, and personal basis must underlie every act of building. This radical view can conform to our most ordinary, daily intuitions. It may provide a path for those contemporary scientists who are beginning to see consciousness as the underpinning of all matter, and thus as a proper object of scientific study. And it will change, forever, our conception of what buildings are.
- 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)
Unpublished:[54]
- Sustainability and Morphogenesis (working title)[55]
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命創作過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 、馬諦斯到我們的時代的創造
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紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 、馬諦斯到我們的時代的創造
紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：我們千千萬萬回的有生命過程/實存(LIVING PROCESSES/ BEINGS)：從12世紀大教堂 Chartres Cathedral 到我們的時代的創造
LIVING PROCESSES REPEATED TEN MILLION TIMES
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紀念Christopher Alexander 1936~2022 (3)：
THE TEN THOUSAND BEINGS ( ) --
~ The Nature of Order (Book 4) : The Luminous Ground (2004) 第4章
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