Christopher Alexander

Person · Open Library

Born

4 October 1936

Died

17 March 2022

Works

24

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Austria

Active from

1926-06-30

Active to

2011-02-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

249

Total plays

656

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,063x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,600x

3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,538x

4. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 25,573x

5. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,595x

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Quotes

• “In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.”
• “...we have so far beset ourselves with rules, and concepts, and ideas of what must be done to make a building or a town alive, that we have become afraid of what will happen naturally, and convinced that we must work within a "system" and with "methods" since without them our surroundings will come tumbling down in chaos.”
• “A thing is whole according to how free it is of inner contradictions. When it is at war with itself, and gives rise to forces which act to tear it down, it is unwhole. The more free it is of its own inner contradictions, the more whole and healthy and wholehearted it becomes.”
• “When we know those moments, when we smile, when we let go, when we are not on guard at all – these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it – for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.”
• “Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”
• “Look more carefully...to find out what it really is that is repeating there .... Beyond its elements, each building [or town] is defined by certain patterns of relationships among the elements.... These relationships are not extra, but necessary to the elements... The elements themselves are patterns of relationships.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Wolfgang

Family name

Q1511218

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Vienna

Place of death

Binsted

Occupation

visual artist

Educated at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Employer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Languages spoken

German

Academic degree

master's degree

Field of work

architectural theory

Image

ChristopherAlexander2012 cropped.jpg

Work location

Austria

Residence

Binsted

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