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4 Christopher Alexander et al. – Sala
House, Albany, California, 1982-85. (Neil Jackson)
this can be seen in the involvement of
users in design, and there are several cases worth considering, particularly
for their curiously similar formal characteristics. These range from whole
cities constructed by their inhabitants, such as Paolo Soler’s monumental
Arcoscanti, down to the one-off house built by the client, with the architect
acting as an onsite advisor. This latter scenario has been championed by
Christopher Alexander, who started life as a mathematician, and then went on to
analyse the process of design through a system of numerical variables. In his
later work this approach softened somewhat into the more flexible method of
designing with Patterns, which he then developed into a handbook or manual,
which could be used by anyone to design a building to their own requirements. At
the Sala House in California this was applied to a single family dwelling, but
he has also worked on larger scale developments, such as a college campus in
Japan. In
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