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framework:building-process-program-uc-berkeleyBuilding Process program (UC Berkeley)
Alexander's educational program teaching students to work with living processes in real construction projects, eventually closed by faculty opposition.
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- Living processimplementsA generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
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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.
- Alexander's proposed approach using high technology to provide processes (not components) that create sophisticated elements cheaply while fitting local circumstance.
- Western philosophical tradition proposed as solution to Persistence Paradox; conceived self as process not thing.
- One of Alexander's institutional affiliations during the development of this work.
- Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
- Institutional home of Hajo Neis and Cristina Piza de Toledo's experiments on life judgments
- Continuous checking of each step against the wholeness, allowing adaptation and course correction.
- The idea that social process must become truly architectural—i.e., morphogenetic, form-creating—to generate a living world.
- A formal language for describing concurrent processes via message passing.