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concept:arts-and-crafts-movementArts and Crafts Movement
Historical design movement that influenced Alexander's work but which he has advanced and extended with systematic methodology.
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- Fifteen Propertiesmembers_of
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- Claim about the nature of a genuine alternative to Modernism.
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- Quality Without A Nameassociated_withCentral concept in Alexander's philosophy—an objective, precise but unnamed quality that is the root criterion of life and spirit in buildings, towns, and natural systems.
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- Inside the Visitor CentrementionsArticle by Alan Powers about Christopher Alexander's West Dean Visitor Centre, published in Perspectives, August/September 1996.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The 20th-century architectural movement that prioritized originality and broke with tradition, often structure-destroying.
- 1960s-70s scholarly movement Alexander initially championed then rejected; attempted to systematize design process through methods; Alexander later opposed separation of study from practice.
- Process art demonstrating aesthetics of food preparation, consumption, and ritual interaction conditioned by artifact design.
- A trend toward using plentiful, cheap, and naturally available materials; Alexander acknowledges its positive aspects but critiques its archaic tendencies.
- Artifacts designed to bring about process-aesthetic experiences; primary aesthetic properties emerge in the enactor's activity.
- 1960–1980 psychological movement cited for the wisdom that health depends on accurate awareness of one's own inner feeling