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institute:center-for-environmental-structureCenter for Environmental Structure
Alexander's collaborative research center at UC Berkeley; included Sara Ishikawa and others whose contributions remain underrepresented in historical accounts.
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Thinkers (15)
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- Christopher Alexanderaffiliated_with
- Hajo Neisaffiliated_withCollaborator on the Eishin Campus and Parkstadt projects, and independent partner on the Frankfurt/Hoechst project.
- Gary Blackaffiliated_withEngineer who collaborated on the structural design of the Mary Rose Museum trusses and provided intense engineering input.
- Sara Ishikawaaffiliated_with
- Randy Schmidtaffiliated_withCollaborator on the Back of the Moon project in Austin, Texas.
- Katalin Bendeaffiliated_withCollaborator on the blue glasses and the Puerto Rico bridge; asked Alexander why anyone would be afraid of true beauty.
- Pamela Alexanderaffiliated_withChristopher Alexander's wife, a professional singer, who requested the music cabinet.
- Deni Coronadoaffiliated_withCollaborator on the Sarlo spa color work (mentioned with Christopher Alexander).
- Eleni Corombiliaffiliated_withCollaborator on color experiments for the Sarlo spa.
- Gernot Mittersteineraffiliated_withApprentice from Austria who worked with Alexander on the Martinez house color process, mentioned in a dialogue.
- Hana Moriaffiliated_withCollaborator on the Puerto Rico bridge design.
- Kleoniki Tsotropoulouaffiliated_withApprentice who helped with the painted kitchen and the Waldorf kindergarten model.
- Miyoko Tsutsuaffiliated_withAssistant who helped with the Great Hall mock-up at Eishin.
- Seth Wachtelaffiliated_withCollaborator on tilemaking (Creels red, yellow, oink, blue, sand pattern).
- Stephen Duffaffiliated_withApprentice who worked on the painted kitchen mock-up.
Papers (1)
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Chapters (2)
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- The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
- Chapter 12 of A Vision of a Living World, presenting examples and principles showing how living processes create unique, personal environments.
Events (1)
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- A community of Israeli immigrants built in the Galilee mountains starting around 1982 using an early generative process.
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- The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
- Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
- Rhetorical question suggesting alternative, more inclusive research directions.
- Training environments formalized as graphs where nodes have sensory observations and edges represent actions; used to test structural generalization.
- Research center in Kathmandu organizing workshops on care as driver of intelligence.
- The large-scale organizational pattern of a system whose preservation defines wholeness-preserving transformations
- Thesis that complexity of environment drives cognitive evolution; mentioned in relation to sensorimotor organization.