CHRISTOPHER
ALEXANDER
ACHIEVEMENTS:
⩩ THE FOUNDER OF THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
STRUCTURE IN 1967( PRESIDENT TILL TODAY)
⩩ IN 2000, HE FOUNDED PATTERNLANGUAGE.COM, AND IS
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
⩩ HAS BEEN A CONSULTANT TO CITY, COUNTY, AND NATIONAL
GOVERNMENTS ON EVERY CONTINENT, HAS ADVISED
CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND
ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
⩩ ELECTED FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES IN 1996
⩩ ELECTED FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES IN 1996
⩩ THE RECIPIENT OF INNUMERABLE ARCHITECTURAL PRIZES
AND HONORS INCLUDING THE GOLD MEDAL FOR RESEARCH
OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, AWARDED IN
1970
⩩ MORE RECENTLY, THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM'S
VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE IN 2009.
BACKGROUND
⩩ Born in Vienna, Austria in 1936.
⩩ Raised in England.
⩩ Holds a Master's Degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor's
degree in Architecture from Cambridge University, and a
PhD in Architecture from Harvard University.
⩩ In 1958 he moved to the United States, and lived in
Berkeley, California from 1963 until 2002; in 2002, he
moved back to West Sussex, England, where he now
resides.
ELEMENTS OF STYLE:
AR.CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
THE EISHIN CAMPUS
Eishin Gakuen, an innovative private high school, was originally located in
Musashino-shi, outside Tokyo. They decided to build a new school which was
to become a combination high-school and college, on a new site of 9
hectares, once tea bush land, outside TokyoOf all the projects he have done, this
is one where the development of the pattern language and generative process
received the most complete, and formal process of discovery of patterns, experiments,
modification and formulation of patterns, hammering out a final version in committee