Died 2022-03-17.
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Christopher Alexander
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software design, and sociology. Alexander designed and personally built more than 200 buildings, both as an arch…
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Born 4 October 1936 · Died 17 March 2022 · Q455076
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Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.
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Look more carefully...to find out what it really is that is repeating there .... Beyond its elements, each building [or town] is defined by certain patterns of relationships among the elements.... These relationships are not extra, but necessary to the elements... The elements themselves are patterns of relationships.
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2022· 5 entries
“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”
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On 17 March 2022, Alexander died of pneumonia in his home in Binsted, England.
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“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”
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“Look more carefully...to find out what it really is that is repeating there .... Beyond its elements, each building [or town] is defined by certain patterns of relationships among the elements.... These relationships are not extra, but necessary to the elements... The elements themselves are patterns of relationships.”
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,123 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2014).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Hasselt University (2008).
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2002· 2 entries
In 2002, after his retirement, Alexander moved to Arundel, England, where he continued to write, teach and build up to the time of his illness and death.
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After his retirement, Alexander moved to Arundel, England, where he continued to write, teach and build up to the time of his illness and death
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1963· 1 entry
To accept an appointment as Professor of Architecture, a position he would hold for almost 40 years
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1958· 1 entry
To study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1954· 1 entry
Was awarded the top open scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, in chemistry and physics, and went on to read mathematics
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1938· 1 entry
As a young child, Alexander emigrated in fall 1938 with his parents from Austria to England, when his parents were forced to flee the Nazi regime.
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-10-04.
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