https://beautiful.software/ [sequence] Beautiful Software is Christopher Alexander's research initiative on computing and the environment "...the character of the computer environment of the future needs to become more childish, and more human, if it is to help human beings to genuinely extract the best of themselves... this change may well affect activities which are apparently technical, not only those that one broadly classifies as 'creative'." -- Christopher Alexander In the future we'll only understand how to build good software, if we focus, now, on creating software that does good ... "It is a view of programming as the natural genetic infrastructure of a living world which you/we are capable of creating, managing, making available, and which could then have the result that a living structure in our towns, houses, work places, cities, becomes an attainable thing. That would be remarkable. It would turn the world around, and make living structure the norm once again, throughout society, and make the world worth living in again." -- Christopher Alexander We need to develop our capacity to work together to help the world become more beautiful, humane, fair, natural, comfortable, and alive. We need to listen carefully to people and nature, and to ground ourselves in reality. Ultimately, we want to help human intuition to do what it does best. That means people's interactions with computers should only help them to do what is needed, to inform them, to help them connect to the real world, and to draw their attention towards important things they've forgotten, and away from unimportant things they're too focused upon. We bring computer people into the Beautiful Software Initiative through the Building Beauty core course, so they get a chance to study the physical building process with Christopher Alexander's colleagues and students. This stimulates their innate ability to see the living qualities in anything, and to generate a living process for growing anything. With this appreciation for the importance of natural structure, we are moving forward with the experimental engineering that Alexander felt was needed in the practice and application of computing. "... I would hope to see examples of programs which make you gasp because of their beauty. And I would hope for a growing knowledge, in the field of software engineering, of what this means ..." 2022 Nikos A. Salingaros: Artificial Intelligence reveals what experts deny 2022 Tim Gorichanaz: How 'living architecture' could help the world avoid a soul-deadening digital future 2022 Angus Stocking: Christopher Alexander and Modern Surveying 2022 David Gasca: How to make living systems 2022 Richard P. Gabriel: Notes For ' Notes On "Notes" ' 2022 Misha Semenov: Beautiful Software mentioned in New York Review of Architecture 2022 Dorian Taylor: Any given moment in a process 2022 Arlene Chen and Theodora Vardouli: Interactive reconstruction of hidecs2 2022 Theodora Vardouli: Christopher Alexander's mathematics 2022 Robinson, Ohrenstein: How To Build Beautiful Places 2022 Bryant, Heshmat, Lavrisha: Analogous Unfolding 2022 Greg Bryant: Unfolding Sequences - a video introduction 2022 Greg Bryant: transcript for Unfolding Sequences - an introduction 2021-2022 Shahriar Heshmat's Color theory guide: patterns.blue (in progress) 2021 Claire L. Evans: Towards Growing Peaches Online 2021 The Beautiful Software Thesis: feeling as the core of good engineering 2021 Beautiful Software at Building Beauty 2020-2021 Tomaž Žlender - Mirror of the Self survey tool 2021 Gareth Rees: Building Beauty / Beautiful Software -- the first year 2021 Stefan Lesser: Christopher Alexander's philosophy -- useful for tools for thought? 2020 Stefan Lesser: How to adopt Christopher Alexander's ideas in the software industry 2020 Self-descriptive webapp -- a class exercise 2020 one step of a sequence platform 2020 PUARL+BB conference: The point of the Beautiful Software seminar: distributing the toolbox 2020 Podcast: Ryan Singer and Greg Bryant 2020 The Beautiful Software Initiative announcement 2020 Beautiful Software at computing philosophy 2020 Diana Cristobal Olave: The Computer-Aided Rough Patterns of Christopher Alexander 2020 The Game Overanalyser: Christopher Alexander and Game Design 2019 Egon Elbre: Building with Value 2019 R. Gabriel and J. Quillien: A Search for Beauty 2018 Or Ettlinger: The wonder of mockups 2017+ buildingbeauty.org 2017 Gatemaker video demonstration 2015 Greg Bryant: Living Structure and Cognition 2014 Nikos Salingaros: Codes That Generate Life 2014 Urbanology YouTube channel 2013 Gatemaker: Christopher Alexander's dialogue with the computer industry 2010 Ryan Singer: Designing with Forces 2008 Greg Bryant: Developing software with sequences: Passing Keys 2008 Christopher Alexander interview snippet: computer-assisted building 2007 Christopher Alexander: Interview by Katy Butler 2006 Christopher Alexander: Action List for Building a Living Neighborhood 2006 Christopher Alexander: The Heart of the City 2006 Christopher Alexander: Three Rules for Starting a Neighborhood 2006 Christopher Alexander: Pattern Languages, Sequences, and Generative Codes 2006 Christopher Alexander: The order in which things are done 2006 Christopher Alexander: Main steps of work 2006 Christopher Alexander: What is an unfolding? 2006 Christopher Alexander: Library of Unfoldings 2006 Christopher Alexander: Generative codes 2006 Christopher Alexander: Seven Main Steps to a Living Neighborhood 2006 Christopher Alexander: Our Services (CES) 2006 Christopher Alexander: Empirical Findings from The Nature of Order 2005 Christopher Alexander: Pedestrian London 2005 Christopher Alexander: The Brookings Plan 2005 Christopher Alexander: Harmony-Seeking Computations 2005 Christopher Alexander: A house in 33 steps 2005 Christopher Alexander interview: Battle for Ordinary Human Existence 2005 Christopher Alexander: Generative Codes - The Path 2005+ livingneighborhoods.org 2004+ community-projects 2004 Christopher Alexander: Sustainability and Morphogenesis 2004 Christopher Alexander and Maggie Moore: Conversation on Stress 2004 Christopher Alexander: The Nature of Order (book 4) 2003 Christopher Alexander and Maggie Moore: Conversation on Sustainability 2003 Christopher Alexander: New Concepts in Complexity Theory 2002 Christopher Alexander & Greg Bryant: Sequences 2002 Christopher Alexander: The Nature of Order - Bk. 2 Ch. 6 on sequences and computing 2002 Christopher Alexander: A Universal Sequence 2002 Christopher Alexander: Our New Architecture And The Many World Cultures 2002 Christopher Alexander: The Kitchen Cost Game 2001 Christopher Alexander: Advice on starting a project 2001 Christopher Alexander: Fifteen Properties (Whole Earth) 2001 Christopher Alexander: The Nature of Order (book 1) 2000 San Francisco Examiner: Alexander's web ambitions 2000 first release of patternlanguage.com 2000 Bill Joy in Fortune on the future and Alexander 1999 Hajo Neis: Building Process Syllabus 1998+ patternlanguage.com 1998 Jim Coplien on the Nature of Order and software 1997 Stewart Brand (BBC) How Buildings Learn (including Alexander) 1 2 3 4 5 6 1997+ urbanology.com 1997+ Greg Bryant: Gatemaker or "The Aspen summit" 1997 Christopher Alexander: Gatemaker as a fundamental step in computer science 1997 Christopher Alexander & Greg Bryant: Thoughts on the Aspen Meeting 1997 Greg Bryant: Report on Software Issues 1997 Christopher Alexander & Greg Bryant: Three Key Definitions 1996 Christopher Alexander OOPSLA Keynote address 1996 Christopher Alexander: Foreword to Patterns of Software 1996 Alan Powers - The Alexander Technique (West Dean) 1995 Christopher Alexander video: Nature, Life, Self 1995 Christopher Alexander: The Mary Rose Museum 1994 Greg Bryant: Alexander visits The Oregon Experiment 1994 Christopher Alexander interviewed by Greg Bryant: The Application of Feeling 1993 Christopher Alexander: A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art 1991 Greg Bryant: The Oregon Experiment after Twenty Years 1991 Christopher Alexandert: Manifesto 1991 1989 Christopher Alexander: The Perfection of Imperfection 1987 Christopher Alexander: Toward a Personal Workspace 1987 Christopher Alexander: A New Theory of Urban Design 1985 Christopher Alexander: The Production of Houses 1985 Jon Krakauer: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 1984 Christopher Alexander: Mexicali Revisted: Introduction 1984 Dorit Fromm, Peter Bosselmann: Mexicali Revisited: Seven Years Later 1984 Christopher Alexander & Pete Retondo: An Uncommon Bench 1984 Uncommon Bench on Google Maps 1984 Christopher Alexander: The order in which things are done 1983 Stephen Grabow: Christopher Alexander 1982 Christopher Alexander: Moshav Shorashim Handbook for House Design 1981 Christopher Alexander: The Linz Cafe 1980 Kiko Denzer: Organic Design 1979 Christopher Alexander: The Timeless Way of Building 1977 Steven Joseph Difranco: Use of Hierarchical Decomposition in Computer System Design 1975 Christopher Alexander: The Oregon Experiment 1973 Christopher Alexander: The Grass Roots Housing Process 1972 Christopher Alexander: The Invention of a Human and Organic Building System 1972 Christopher Alexander: An Attempt to Derive the Nature of a Human Building System from First Principles 1972 AIA Journal: Alexander's research medal 1971 Christopher Alexander: The State of the Art in Design Methods 1971 Christopher Alexander: Summary of Houses Generated by Patterns 1971 Gregory Bateson on Christopher Alexander, page 2 1970 Christopher Alexander: Early summary draft of A Timeless Way of Building 1970 Architectural Forum on Pattern Language 1970 Christopher Alexander: Changes in Form 1970 Christopher Alexander on the University of Oregon campus 1969 Christopher Alexander: Houses Generated By Patterns 1966-69 Solly Angel recalls the final form of patterns (2022) 1969 Christopher Alexander: Major Changes in Environmental Form Required by Social and Psychological Demands 1969 Herbert Simon on Christopher Alexander 1968 Christopher Alexander: The Bead Game Conjecture 1968 Christopher Alexander & Susan Carey: Subsymmetries 1968 Christopher Alexander: An Environmental Pattern Language 1968 Gregory Bateson, Warren McCulloch, Barry Commoner, Gordon Pask discuss Christopher Alexander 1968 Peter Naur on Christopher Alexander 1974 1976 1992 1967 Christopher Alexander, Heinz von Foerster: computers and pattern languages 1967 Christopher Alexander: Systems Generating Systems 1966 Christopher Alexander: The Coordination of the Urban Rule System 1966 Christopher Alexander: The Pattern of Streets 1966 Christopher Alexander: The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact 1966 Christopher Alexander: Relational Complexes in Architecture 1966 Christopher Alexander: The Atoms of Environmental Structure 1966 Christopher Alexander: From a Set of Forces to a Form 1966 Architectural Forum: Christopher Alexander at BART 1965 Christopher Alexander: A City is not a Tree 1965 Christopher Alexander: The Theory and Invention of Form 1964 Christopher Alexander: On Changing the Way People See 1964 Christopher Alexander: A Much Asked Question About Computers and Design 1964 Proceedings of Architecture and the Computer 1964 about 'Architecture and the Computer' 1964 Christopher Alexander: Main Structure Concept 1964 Christopher Alexander: 390 requirements for the rapid transit station 1964 Christopher Alexander: Notes on the Synthesis of Form 1963 Chermayeff and Alexander: Community and Privacy 1963 Christopher Alexander: HIDECS 3 1963 Christopher Alexander: Twenty-six pictures to the top of the tree 1963 Christopher Alexander: The Determination of Components of an Indian Village 1962 Christopher Alexander: HIDECS 2 1962 Christopher Alexander: The Origin of Creative Power in Children 1962 Christopher Alexander: The Use of Diagrams in Highway Route Location : An Experiment 1962 Christopher Alexander: The Design of Highway Interchanges 1961 (written in 2002) Christopher Alexander: The Bavra Story 1961 Christopher Alexander: Information and an Organized Process of Design 1960 Christopher Alexander: A Result in Visual Aesthetics 1960 Christopher Alexander: The Revolution Finished Twenty Years Ago 1959 Christopher Alexander: Perception and Modular Co-ordination Christopher Alexander in documents at the Internet Archive Christopher Alexander Curriculum Vitae