Christopher Alexander
Sign in to saveAlso known as Christopher Wolfgang Alexander, Christopher W. Alexander, Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander
American architect and design theorist (1936-2022)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 October 1936
- Died
- 17 March 2022
- Works
- 24
Top works
- The design of highway interchanges
- The use of diagrams in highway route location
- A pattern language
- Community and privacy
- A New Theory of Urban Design
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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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Discography
- Peter Alexander singt Melodien zum Verlieben1961
- Mir geht's wunderbar1962
- Wiener Spaziergänge1962
- Piccolo-Party1963
- Spaziergang durch das Land der Operette mit Peter Alexander1964
- Schöne Weihnacht mit Peter Alexander1965
- Spaziergang durch das Land des Films1965
- Wiener G'schichten mit Peter Alexander1965
- In Paris1966
- Spezialitäten von der Donau zum Don1967
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 249
- Total plays
- 656
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,734x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,712x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,164x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,109x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,872x
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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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- date of birth
- 1936-10-04
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- Christopher Alexander
- name in native language
- Christopher Alexander
- date of death
- 2022-03-17
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1936 births2022 deaths20th-century American architects20th-century American male writers20th-century American non-fiction writers20th-century Austrian architects20th-century Roman Catholics21st-century American architects21st-century American male writers21st-century American non-fiction writers21st-century Roman CatholicsAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeAmerican male non-fiction writersAmerican Roman Catholic writersArchitectural theoreticiansArtists from ViennaAustrian emigrants to the United KingdomBritish emigrants to the United StatesBritish Roman CatholicsDesign researchersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesHarvard FellowsHarvard Graduate School of Design alumniMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts