Christopher Alexander - Published Works

Published Works

Alexander's published works include:

  • Community and Privacy, with 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, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1968)
  • Houses Generated by Patterns (1969)
  • The Grass Roots Housing Process (1973)
  • The Oregon Experiment (1975)
  • A Pattern Language, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1977)
  • The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
  • The Linz Cafe (1981)
  • The Production of Houses, with Davis, Martinez, and Corner (1985)
  • A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and 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

Unpublished:

  • Sustainability and Morphogenesis (working title)

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