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artifact:mexicali-projectMexicali Project
Group of houses and communal buildings in Mexicali (1976), with domes, white walls, courtyards, each window different; cost $3,500 per house and was ridiculed by Berkeley faculty.
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Thinkers (3)
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- Christopher Alexanderauthored
- Howard DavisauthoredArchitectural researcher, author of The Culture of Building, provided historical evidence about building adaptation and fine-tuning.
- Julio MoralesauthoredCollaborator on the Mexicali project, credited alongside Alexander, Harrods, and Davis.
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- Pleasing Yourselfassociated_withThe core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
- Childlike Innocenceassociated_withThe state of pure, unselfconscious making where one pleases oneself absolutely, free from rules and concepts—the closest we can come to the egoless state.