| Title |
A Transition in Christopher Alexander`s Notion of Architectural Design Process |
| Abstract |
The paper deals with the changes in the Christopher Alexander's notion of architectural design process as they appeared in his first six major publications. First, he started with the notion of problem-solving mechanism, where deagrams are aquired by direct translation of verbal design requirements into schematic drawings, and a tree-like structure, which is a result of analysis of the relationship among the requirements, is used to automatically add the diagrams up into final design product. Through several conceptual and methodological changes as intermediate steps, Alexander came up with the notion of rationalistic/puzzle-making process, where patterns exist in the social and cultural context, and the patterns that are appropriate for a particular design project are acquired through rationalistic program: and where these patterns are synthesized, one by one, through puzzle-making process in order to reach the final design product. |