PART SIX : CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
- realised that architecture had to embrace broader social parameters.
- he argued the predominant belief that the physical enviroment had very little effect on behaviour, and was not important socially.
- identifying that in a modest manner, consideration of psychological issues would lead to a major revision of enviroment.
- culture is a system of standard situations with required spatial setting = "patterns"
this objectives lead:
- architects to broaden the base of their concern
- focus on the psychological and social demands of people as significant issues in a relevant architecture.
- pattern = defined in terms of " function" rather than "geometry"
- architecture relevant to local people = another way in which architecture could be ordered, namely through suitable technology and teh use of local space types that are meaningful to people.
work highlighted:
- the need to work within enviroment in which people have developed their own, cost effective solutions.
