Christopher Alexander - Published Works

Published Works

Alexander's published works include:

• Community and Privacy, with Serge Chermayeff (1963)
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)
• A city is not a tree (1965)
• The Atoms of Environmental Structure (1967)
• A Pattern Language which Generates Multi-service Centers, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1968)
• Houses Generated by Patterns (1969)
• The Grass Roots Housing Process (1973)
• The Oregon Experiment (1975)
• A Pattern Language, with Ishikawa and Silverstein (1977)
• The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
• The Linz Cafe (1981)
• The Production of Houses, with Davis, Martinez, and Corner (1985)
• A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987)
• Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets (1993)
• The Mary Rose Museum, with Black and Tsutsui (1995)

• The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002)
• The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)
• The Nature of Order Book 3: A Vision of a Living World (2005)
• The Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground (2004)

• The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems

Unpublished:

• Sustainability and Morphogenesis (working title)