Alexander's view is as subjective. Eisenman is doing capital A architecture. Alexander never studied architecture proper and is essentially a glorified sociologist, restricting creativity. And instead of teaching architectural appreciation he goes on side gingerbread house and fights against anything he perceives as dangerous.

Thanks for uploading and thanks to the person who interviewed him

Sorry guys but really, after Chris Alexander, this is just so much hot air.

How’s that affordable housing?

I read pattern language. Basically everything he proposes is good architecture. Alexander was a genius.

Great talk! In just 20 minutes, he managed to unite all of our problems in a single framework and give inspiration for wholistic solutions! 👏👏

It is becoming ever clearer to me that timeless beauty is in fact NOT in the eye of the beholder. Fashion however, is.

I have seen several videos from those who want to suck up to the architectural mafia, saying how terrible this place is, clearly they are very jealous of it's success. The mafia rule needs to be challenged, and this is a great start.

Bit soulless, but than, so is most modern architectures, at least the town has style, walkability and third places.

I feel it boring and lifeless.

That looks a nice place..whoever designed it is very clever and imaginative..added those balcony and verandas it almost looks like a film set...people will be proud and want to look after it. I plan to visit there .

Such pseudo-scientific babble. It’s beyond me how any serious journal would publish these articles.

Традиция - корень трад.(trade с англ. торговля) ,ци- энергия жизни, я-я. Благодарю за Ваше время, уделённое этой теме. С уважением Николай ( тот самый).

Mausoleum.

Looks like Pimlico

I’m a medieval architect and builder. You are a joke, and disappointment to the proud trades. Talking nonsense.

It’s awfully disneylandish

5:23 " ... rarely mentioned problem, is the *spread of ugliness* ..." .... its a sign of our un-well-being as a modern society i have noticed there is ugliness in my heart at times .. i do not always wish well of others at times ... i need to address this un-wellness in me .... i am getting sicker as i become more well-off .... 20:53 ... the solution lies in the overhauling of the whole process that is basically killing us we need to do things more slowly and more considerately at every scale, and in every step that is conducive to our well-being ... taking this cue from Christopher Alexander .. for me means ... pursuing beauty as the first step ... judging my every action if it brings me a smile this shall be my metric my compass to know if i am moving in the right direction if my heart is smiling more .... ... pattern language in my 1st year of architecture confirmed making the switch from civil engineering was the right choice it changed my whole understanding of how buildings should be put together ... sadly due to busyness of work & life i am only discovering now (13 oct '23) this series of books ... have lots to catch up on ... thank you Christopher Alexander ! ! ! ...

Poundbury reminds me of the series, The Prisoner. It is a soulless town and when you drive through it, there are no people.

Thank you ever so much for sharing your view of Christopher and his work. Most especially thank you for sharing the video of Chris attempting to iterate his learning at this stage of his life. I am new to Chris՛ work and i am over joyed by what i am hearing from him. I have the privilege of seeing over linear time his incredible enthusiasm, his challenge of bringing his thoughts and feelings to light, the deepening of his belief structure and the battle he felt he was losing through the later stages of his life. I discovered Chris՛ work simply because i want to build a home on 370 acres of beautiful land in Australia and i am overwhelmed with every emotion in embarking on this project. Thank you to Chris for your guidance, i feel your presence. Thank you to those who knew him and continue to bring forth that which he carried.

Wish I lived there.

This is a great vision

The music that begins at 14:11 is Prelude #6 in D Minor, from The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach. I always thought it was fascinating that you could hear the properties Alexander was describing in the music (alternating repetition, strong centers, deep interlock, echoes, etc). And yes, I think AI might well be able to do the things Alexander was hoping to do in his later years (find latent centers, and do the computations of wholeness). A fascinating prospect! (And yet also a dangerous one, like all technological innovation.)

I dont't see playground spaces, Kids, Church, Trees, LOL, its look like a movie set.

Mucho cemento para mi gusto, faltan árboles en lugar de solamente plantitas y más parques, apenas vi uno. Aunque se ve un sitio tranquilo, demasiado quizás. Si es un experimento debe tomar en cuenta todas las edades. Más parece ciudad de retiro y aún así, insisto, faltan espacios verdes y flores de lo que se ve en el video, quizás sí hay por ahí, pero en las mismas calles falta.

My father, Johan van Lengen, was very much inspired by a lecture of yours in the late 60s in Berkeley, later he wrote the book The Manual of the Barefoot Architect.

Our Guru, thank you for so many thoughts, research, and teachings. How to move forward and return to common sense is our biggest challenge.

i don't see what the whole fuss is about, just another copycat generic ghost estate that has pathetic attempts to look like the "real deal". They got everything wrong and number is it's car-oriented, tiny footpath, , no cycling infrastructure, clear definition of how much space a pedestrian allowed to use. I doubt to find decent frequent playgrounds for kids, a green lawn doesn't constitutes a playground. Overall idea of separating residential from town center, very low density, forcing people into cars, to be anti-social and so on and so on. Never mind a parody of old architecture, you can build new and reference old, but building "old" is wrong on so many levels. Architecture have to respond the time its created in. Old design was dictated by many factors, availability of materials, technology, skills, tradesmen, legislation. There was a reason why it was build in the way it was build. We have much sophisticated technology nowadays and can do bigger spans, slimmer walls, use larger glazing. Doesn't mean it has to be used excessively. To get unique architecture that can be associated locally they just have to use locally source materials, using local typology, scale, doesn't mean copy old, but use it as reference, so it doesn't become another international glass box. Use local craftsmen, add more detail. But even ignoring hideous architecture it just looks like another housing estate but fake.

All started with Adolf Loos in Austria. Vernacular concepts, collective memory, expresión of materials, using pattern languages for generating forms, languages and use experiential movement through the use of planes ( vertical/ horizontal/ light/ shadow/ passive and active spaces) The issue have been what the student learn is disconnected of the living city. Observation and experience the spaces is the best teacher for the future creator to inspire by seeing, feeling the unseen forces

I learned this in the 80 in Argentina. Completed a thesis in 1993 implementing these concepts blending the consious collective forms but using shape grammar methodology. The city was the context, history, observation, and the program of the project. Shape grammars ( 3D mathematics of forms as a generator of language of form and expresión of materials. Forms extract or empower the life forms. After I graduated, reality hit my soul. Nobody was interested. All these knowledge was developed but way of production of architecture in the market.

I wonder if AI tech can help solve this problem...

Thanx 4 Sharing!

Disappointing they really could have went in with the architecture but it looks like another bland town. I was expecting it to look like what France did by reshaping the whole town of Le Plessis-Robinson

Absolutely brilliant lecture, shame it doesn't have more attention.

Christopher Alexander was a genius, the way he articulates what he says and how he get’s his point across is also incredible

I tend to think it is not just the spread of ugliness, but ugliness has established itself so well to the extent that it has become the new beautiful!... The more we are overcome by ugliness in the cityscape the more our aesthetic sense diminishes leading to an inability to distinguish between beautiful and ugly.

What is the song at 15:00 called?

As a designer, I have been attracted to Christopher's ideas for a long time, even when his thoughts and language and was so exotic to me. Now I see that different language for the same phenomenas are found in the different wisdom traditions, phenomenology, cognitive sciences, and finally even design language and practices. It feels like factors of beauty, affordances, and feedback are essential for us to recognize "aliveness/wholeness" of a place or an environment. Recognition of which, along with deeper interactions, then can lead to sense of Extended Self (or extended "I"). This attitude can grow in fractal manner, to the point of "cosmic I", but what I feel is critical is the preservation of awareness of "smaller" self along with layers of "extended" self.

I am interested. I highly appreciate the results of Christopher Alexander's work in Oregon, Mexico and Japan, and I find that the most traditional work similar to its sense of life is found in traditional Japanese architecture, traditional rural egyptian architecture (Hassan Fathy adopted its rules successfully), and traditional European cities and houses. I am trying to find a more direct and rational way to understand it other than depending on feelings or measuring heart rates though!

Poundbury appears to be a clean but rather unappealing place in this video, probably because it is an overcast winter day. Trees and flowers really make a difference in perception.

My pattern language 1 add plants 2 make it sexy enough to make women want sex 3 make it timeless 4 add detail, never too much detail 5 add plants 6 make it rococo

Thank you for doing this.

Important lecture, Nikos, thanks for sharing

Beautiful just needs some trees

It feels like one of those Chinese towns that are faux foreign in design and architecture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town

Even people who leave KZbin reviews here sound pretentious...Felicity Wolstenhulme-Smythe will no doubt put a review on here.

The people who live here come across as pretentious tosse*s who'd be happy to have 15 covid jabs because the Tory government told them to

Was it 'Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the crystal skull' when he hid in a fridge of a house in a made up town built for nuclear bomb testing. Is this the same fake town?

So that´s when king Charles once played the sims ? Can´t see nothing wrong about that. Nice little place for old and boring retired people