Contents
Preface vii
PART 1: THE LARGE AND SMALL DETAILS OF EVERYDAY LIFE 1
1. Perception and modular coordination 1959 3
2. Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Contents, Preface and Part One in early draft 1960 15
3. The Nature of Order, Book One, section on local symmstries 2001 24
4. On changing the way people see 1964 31
5. From a set of forces to a form 1966 45
6. Center for Environmental Structure seminar report, excerpt, 1967 57
7. Early ideas for the pattern language format 1967-68 70 97
8. Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands 1969 84
9. The atoms of environmental structure 1970 97
PART 2 : FROM THE CENTER TO THE UNIVERSE 115
10. Value: a reply to Protzen 1977 117
11. Centering 1977 124
12. A shrine to color and light 1990 127
13. OOPSLA lecture 1996 134
14. Reply to William Saunders 2002 150
15. Our new architecture and the many world cultures 2002 159
16. Harmony-seeking computations 2005 162
17. Conversation with Rem Koolhaas 2006 207
PART 3: THEORY INTO BUILDING 223
18. The grassroots housing process 1973 225
19. The growth of order from small acts 1974 248
20. The architect-builder: toward changing the conception of what an architect is 1977 260
21. Rebirth of the Inner City: The North Omaha Plan, excerpts 1981 263
22. The construction of new neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela, excerpts 1983 280
23. Toward a personal workplace, excerpt 1987 300
24. Construction management contract 1994 311
25. Battle, unpublished chapter 2010 325
Bibliography 335
Index 344