Christopher Alexander
Emeritus Professor
The University of California at Berkeley
Chairman, Center for Environmental Structure
Originator of pattern languages and related generative processes. Author of Notes on the Synthesis of Form, A Pattern Language, and The Nature of Order.
Current work: Generative codes, "Unfoldings" (recombinable packets of process similar to patterns)
"People used to say that just as the 20th century had been the century of physics, the 21st
century would be the century of biology... We would gradually move into a world whose
prevailing paradigm was one of complexity, and whose techniques sought the co-adapted
harmony of hundreds or thousands of variables. This would, inevitably, involve new tech-
nique, new vision, new models of thought, and new models of action. I believe that such
a transformation is starting to occur... To be well, we must set our sights on such a future."