Katarxis 3: New Science, New Urbanism -- New Architecture?

KATARXIS N^o 3

Introduction by the Editors

Foreword by Christopher Alexander

Images of Community

Review of Alexander's The Nature of Order

The Architects and City Planners:

* Andrés Duany

Images of Public Buildings

The Scientists:

* Philip Ball, Brian

* A Response by

Alexande r: New

from Studies in

Images of Neighbourhood

Gallery

* Built Work of

Alexander and his

Background

Architecture is:

* The 1982 Debate

Images of Comfort

Essays

* Nikos Salingaros:

Design Methods,

Emergence and

* Brian Hanson and

Reuniting Urban

Form and Urban

Images of Building Details

* Michael Mehaffy:

Meaning and the

Structure of Things

Alexander: Our

New Architecture

and the Many

World Cultures

* Nikos Salingaros:

Fractals in the New

* Brian Hanson:

Architecture and

the “Science of

Images of Landscape and Gardens

* Michael Mehaffy:

Codes and the

Architecture of Life

* Nikos Salingaros:

Understanding of

Architecture and

* Brian Hanson:

Science, Voodoo

Images of Houses

* Michael Mehaffy: The New Modernity

Alexander: Sober

Reflections on

Architecture in Our

Images of Drawings

Afterword by the Editors

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KATARXIS N^o 3

"Between the traditional and the new, or between order and adventure, there is no real

opposition; and what we call tradition today is a knit work of centuries of adventure."

- Jorge Luis Borges

London, UK September 2004

Updated Jaunary 2006

NEW SCIENCE, NEW URBANISM,

NEW ARCHITECTURE?

New York City region. Images courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

TOWARDS A NEW

21st CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Interviews with

Christopher Alexander, Architect and Mathematician

Andrés Duany, Architect and Urbanist

Philip Ball, Physicist

Brian Goodwin, Biologist

Ian Stewart, Mathematician

Essays By

Leon Krier, Architect and Town Planner

Nikos Salingaros, Physicist and Mathematician,

University of Texas at San Antonio

Brian Hanson, Research Fellow,

Centre for the Study of Religion, Ideas and Society, University of London

Michael Mehaffy, Director of Education, The Prince's Foundation

Special Gallery Section

The Built Work of Christopher Alexander and His Associates

at the Center for Environmental Structure

NEW: Proceedings of London Conference, "New Science, New Urbanism, New Architecture"

With Nature Consulting Editor Philip Ball, RIBA President George Ferguson, Biologist Brian Goodwin, Professor Bill Hillier, Historian Brian Hanson, Critic Charles Jencks, et al.

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NEWS: Centre for Environmental Structure - Europe formally launched in November 2005

The Centre conducts project-based research work on

application of the ideas of The Nature of Order, in collaboration

with allies at the University of Cambridge and elsewhere. Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy and others participate.

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Senior Editor: Lucien Steil

Associate Editors: Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Nikos Salingaros

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