The Oregon Experiment
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780195018240 (ISBN)
Experiment. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation fo the
architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. This book is the master plan for the University of Oregon, and is now being implemented at that university; but it shows at the same time how any community the size of a university or small town might go about designing its own future environment-with all members of the community participating personally. It is a
concrete example at the Center's theories in practice, showing in simple detail, with numerous illustrations, how to implement six guiding principles: organic order, participation, piecemeal growth,
patterns, diagnosis, and coordination.
Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive. Acting on his deeply-held conviction that, as a society, we must recover the means by which we can build and maintain healthy living environments, he has lived and worked in many cultures, and built buildings all over the world. Making neighborhoods, building-complexes, building, balustrades, columns, ceilings, windows, tiles, ornaments, models and mockups, paintings, furniture, castings and carvings--all this has been his passion, and is the cornerstone from which his paradigm-changing principles have been derived.
INRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Organic Order
Chapter 2: Participation
Chapter 3: Piecemeal Growth
Chapter 4: Patterns
Chapter 5: Diagnosis
Chapter 6: Coordination
Acknowledgments
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.8.1978 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Center for Environmental Structure Series ; 3 |
| Zusatzinfo | photographs and text-figures throughout |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 204 mm |
| Gewicht | 349 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-13 | 9780195018240 / 9780195018240 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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