A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Turkish Carpets

Description: For nearly 50+ years Christopher Alexander has challenged the architectural establishment to pay more attention to the human beings at the center of design. To do so he has combined top-flight scientific training, award-winning architectural research, patient observation, empirical testing throughout his building projects--all in the service of a radical but profoundly influential set of ideas that have extended far beyond the realm of architecture. In the process Alexander has authored a series of groundbreaking works, including A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction and The Timeless Way of Building. His most recent publication continues that ground-breaking work, the four-volume book set, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building andthe Nature of the Universe, incorporates more than 30 years of research, study, teaching and building. It was described by Laura Miller of the New York Times as “the kind of book every serious reader should wrestle with once in a while: [a] fat, challenging, grandiose tract that encourages you to take apart the way you think and put it back together again.”Alexander was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Oxford and Chichester, England. He was awarded the top open scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1954, in chemistry and physics, and went on to read mathematics at Cambridge. He took his doctorate in architecture at Harvard (the first Ph.D. in architecture ever awarded at Harvard). During the same period he worked at MIT in transportation theory and in computer science, and at Harvard in cognitive science. His pioneering ideas from that time were known to be highly influential in those fields.Alexander became Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in1963, and taught there continuously for 38 years, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2001. He founded the Center for Environmental Structure in 1967, published hundreds of papers and several dozen books, and built more than 200 buildings around the world. Alexander is widely recognized as the father of the pattern language movement in computer science, which led to important innovations in user-based approaches (such as Wikipedia), and new kinds of Object-Oriented Programming. He is the recipient of the first medal for research ever given by the American Institute of Architects, and he has been honored repeatedly for his buildings in many parts of the world. King Charles was influenced by the ideas of Christopher Alexander, and they collaborated on various building projects. He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 for his contributions to architecture, including his groundbreaking work on how the built environment affects the lives of people. NOTE: Shipping cost is for media mail which is the default Ebay method for books. I can also ship to the USA using standard rate USPS Express mail which takes 2-3 days. This would cost 32 dollars.

Price: 399 USD

Location: Berkeley, California

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