Christopher Alexander’s Battle for Beauty: Any Prospects of Victory? (Reply to a commentary by Professor Nikos Salingaros)

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Abstract

Commenting on an essay of mine about the scientific aspects and potentials of Christopher Alexander’s lifelong “battle for beauty” in architectural and urban design, Professor Nikos Salingaros challenged me to take a stand on the political-activist aspect of Alexander’s battle. Although politics and activism is not my turf research-wise, I venture, in this reply to Salingaros, to conjecture possible tactics for continuation of the battle and, on the basis of that, a cautiously optimistic estimate of the prospects of victory.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
Sider (fra-til)380-385
ISSN2405-8726
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 30 sep. 2020

Emneord

  • Aesthetics
  • Architectural and urban design
  • Christopher Alexander
  • Reform of the building industry
  • Sources of ugliness

Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)

  • Nej

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