25 Facts About Christopher Alexander

Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist.

Christopher Alexander was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

In software, Christopher Alexander is regarded as the father of the pattern language movement.

Christopher Alexander's work has influenced the development of agile software development.

However, Christopher Alexander was controversial among some mainstream architects and critics, in part because his work was often harshly critical of much of contemporary architectural theory and practice.

Christopher Alexander is best known for his 1977 book A Pattern Language, a perennial seller some four decades after publication.

Christopher Alexander moved from England to the United States in 1958 to study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Christopher Alexander moved to Berkeley, California in 1963 to accept an appointment as Professor of Architecture, a position he would hold for almost 40 years.

In 2002, after his retirement, Christopher Alexander moved to Arundel, England, where he continued to write, teach and build up to the time of his illness and death.

Christopher Alexander was married to Margaret Moore Christopher Alexander, and he had two daughters, Sophie and Lily, by his former wife Pamela Patrick.

On 17 March 2022, Christopher Alexander died peacefully in his home in Binsted, near Arundel, United Kingdom, following a long illness.

Christopher Alexander attended the Dragon School in Oxford and then Oundle School.

Christopher Alexander earned a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a master's degree in mathematics.

Christopher Alexander took his doctorate at Harvard.

Christopher Alexander used the project to connect with themes in his four-volume series.

Christopher Alexander contrasted his approach, with the construction processes endemic in the US and Japanese economies.

Christopher Alexander's built work is characterized by a special quality that relates to human beings and induces feelings of belonging to the place and structure.

Christopher Alexander's work has widely influenced architects; among those who acknowledge his influence are Sarah Susanka, Andres Duany, and Witold Rybczynski.

Will Wright wrote that Christopher Alexander's work was influential in the origin of the SimCity computer games, and in his later game Spore.

Christopher Alexander often led his own software research, such as the 1996 Gatemaker project with Greg Bryant.

Christopher Alexander discovered and conceived a recursive structure, so called wholeness, which is defined mathematically, exists in space and matter physically, and reflects in our minds and cognition psychologically.

Christopher Alexander had his idea of wholeness back to early 1980s when he finished his first version of The Nature of Order.

Christopher Alexander suggests a crucial link between traditional practices and beliefs, and recent scientific advances.

The life's work of Christopher Alexander is dedicated to turn design from unselfconscious behavior to selfconscious behavior, so called design science.

Christopher Alexander was inspired by traditional buildings, and tried to derive some 253 patterns for architectural design.