CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture ( By Stephen Grabow)

 

CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture ( By Stephen Grabow)

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Grabow, Stephen: Christopher Alexander: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture, Oriel Press (Routledge & Kegan Paul), London and Boston, 1983.



CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture  (1983)是一本絕版書   不過美國有三處"新書"賣60美元 (1983年版訂價37.5元)

作者STEPHEN GRABOW 當初申請到補助,跑到CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER任教的伯克萊大學,與傳主密切訪談6個月以上 (訪談多有錄音 本書多根據這些謄本寫作)。當時CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER 教書約有15年經驗 基本的思想系統已備 雖然他還有近20年的大學教學生涯
英文書將Stephen Grabow與CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER合作的此書
比擬為Boswell與S. Johnson間合作的The Life of Dr. Johnson




我之所以要特別記一下本書是因為有些書緣

1986年我翻譯 Christopher Alexander的《形之合成》Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
1987-88年我在東海建築研究所教的以CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDE的學說為主.
那時候台灣可以買到他在牛津大學出版社OUP的新書 A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987)
 2013年聖誕節特價. 我的這本書已為蟲蛀.....
 
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A New Theory of Urban Design

Christopher Alexander
with Hajo Neis, Artemis Anninou, and Ingrid King

• Architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
PART I. THEORY
1. The Idea of a Growing Whole
2. The Overriding Rule
3. The Seven Detailed Rules of Growth
PART II. EXPERIMENT
PART III. EVALUATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Author Information

Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive.



Acting on his deeply-held conviction that, as a society, we must recover the means by which we can build and maintain healthy living environments, he has lived and worked in many cultures, and built buildings all over the world.



Making neighborhoods, building-complexes, building, balustrades, columns, ceilings, windows, tiles, ornaments, models and mockups, paintings, furniture, castings and carvings--all this has been his passion, and is the cornerstone from which his paradigm-changing principles have been derived.

不過 CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture (Stephen Grabow) 不容易買到.
幸虧玉燕當時(1988)在某公司上班 工作是支援台北市捷運系統  美國顧問公司的"主管" Kevin邀請我們到他家吃"美國料理"  我知道他要回西雅圖度假  就請他到當地大學買一本.

當時我在東海教書是帶四位研究生讀CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER的主要著作
而這本書含蓋當時待出版的四卷本The nature of order: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the Universe.( ALEXANDER將這套書放在OUP十幾年. 最後談判破裂 他以其研究中心名義在2002-2005之間將它們出版.

2013年3-4月 我準備演講再翻翻此書.
發現這本30年前的書還是很有參考價值

Grabow, Stephen, 1943-

Christopher Alexander : the search for a new paradigm in architecture / by Stephen Grabow.

Stocksfield ; Boston : Oriel Press, 1983.

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Subject(s)	Alexander, Christopher, 1936- Architecture -- Environmental aspects. Architects -- Psychology.
Description	xviii, 306 p., l p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Bibliography: p. 229-237.
ISBN	0853621993 :
OCLC No.	11726672