This is the sixth lecture in the series: “Algorithmic Sustainable Design”, by Nikos A. Salingaros, Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at The University of Texas at San Antonio. All the lectures from a course given in 2008 are available on the Internet.
An accompanying book contains the revised lecture notes: Algorithmic Sustainable Design - Twelve Lectures on Architecture, Sustasis Press, Portland, Oregon (2010, 2014). The US Edition is here:
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This book is available in Chinese, Farsi, and Russian translations.
Texts discussed:
Christopher Alexander (2001) The Nature of Order, Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California.
Christopher Alexander (2009) “Harmony-Seeking Computations”, Keynote Speech at the International Workshop “The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation”, University of York, UK, April 2005:
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