http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/library/empirical-findings.pdf
ChristopherAlexander 자신이 쓴 글인가보다.
TheNatureOfOrder, 4권짜리 책으로, 1975년부터 2005년까지 30여년간의 기간에 주로 저작했는데, I have tried to construct a coherent picture of life on earth, which makes sense of these matters, and gives us something to live for, and worth living for.
Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
To lay a groundwork for understanding built environments which support human well-being, I began about 40 years ago, searching for, defining, and identifying, patterns of space that recurred in buildings, each one dealing with a particular range of problems that was likely to occur in the world of building.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, I began to notice that these 250 patterns were themselves special cases of a small number of much deeper configurational properties. ... In the end, I had identified 15 of these properties. ... indeed all "good" structure would be composed of these fifteen fundamental properties.
"We began to refer to this quality, when viewed in its geometrical aspect, as 'living structure'"
"The fifteen properties are the ways in which living centers can support other living centers (demonstrated). A center is a field-like centrality that occurs in space."