Christopher Alexander
| Christopher Alexander | |
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| Nascimento | 4 de outubro de 1936 Viena |
| Morte | 17 de março de 2022 (85 anos) Binsted |
| Residência | Chichester, Oxford, Berkeley, Binsted |
| Nacionalidade | austríaco |
| Cidadania | Estados Unidos, Reino Unido |
| Progenitores |
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| Cônjuge | Margaret Moore Alexander |
| Filho(a)(s) | Sophie, Lily |
| Alma mater |
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| Ocupação | arquiteto, teórico da arquitetura, professor universitário, teórico da arte, urbanista, artista visual, colecionador de arte, matemático |
| Distinções |
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| Empregador(a) | Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts |
Cristopher Alexander (Viena, 4 de outubro de 1936 – Binstead, 17 de março de 2022) foi um arquiteto, matemático e urbanista austríaco. Era professor emérito da Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley. Foi um dos críticos da arquitetura moderna apontando a desagregação social causada por ela. Seus estudos contribuíram para a utilização de padrões geométricos e matemáticos no urbanismo e arquitetura.
Faleceu na Inglaterra em 17 de março de 2022.[1]
Obras representativas
- West Dean Visitors Centre (Sussex)
- Community Mental Health Center (California)
- Plan for Chikusadai (Nagoya)
- Campus de la New Eishin University (Tokyo)
- Agate Street dormitory (Oregon)
- Casa Sullivan (California)
- Casa Upham (California)
- Casa Martínez (California)
- El plan Shiratori (Nagoya)
- Julian Street Inn (California)
Trabalhos publicados
As obras publicadas de Alexander incluem:
- Community and Privacy, com Serge Chermayeff (1963)
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
- A City is Not a Tree (1965)
- The Atoms of Environmental Structure (1967)
- A Pattern Language which Generates Multi-service Centers, com Ishikawa e Silverstein (1968)
- Houses Generated by Patterns (1969)
- The Grass Roots Housing Process (1973)
- The Center for Environmental Structure Series, composta de
- The Oregon Experiment (1975)
- A Pattern Language, com Ishikawa e Silverstein (1977)
- The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
- The Linz Cafe (1981)
- The Production of Houses, com Davis, Martinez, and Corner (1985)
- A New Theory of Urban Design, com Neis, Anninou, e King (1987)
- Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets (1993)
- The Mary Rose Museum, with Black and Tsutsui (1995)
- The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
- The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
- The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)
- The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems, com HansJoachim Neis e Maggie More Alexander (2012)
Não publicado:[2]
- Sustainability and Morphogenesis (working title)
Referências
- ↑ Singh, Mankirat. «Who was Christopher Alexander and what was his cause of death?». getindianews.com (em inglês). Consultado em 19 de março de 2022
- ↑ Hopkins, Rob. «Exclusive to Transition Culture! An interview with Christopher Alexander » Transition Culture» (em inglês). Consultado em 27 de setembro de 2021
Ligações externas
- Official website for Alexander's Pattern Language
- Official website of Christopher Alexander, on his 4-volume book The Nature of Order
- "Some Notes on Christopher Alexander", de Nikos Salingaros
- Introduction to Christopher Alexander
- Radio interview with Christopher Alexander de NPR's Jennifer Ludden
- National Building Museum interviews Michael Mehaffy na ocasião em que Christopher Alexander recebeu o prêmio Scully de 2009
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