What the Future Holds in Store - and Why
This is part C of Christopher Alexander's talk "The Origins of Pattern Theory, the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World" [patternlanguage.com] as recorded in San Jose California at the 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA). It forms part of my research and I include it in this article under the doctrine of fair use [copyright.gov]. Christopher Alexander is professor emeritus at the University of California in Berkley, construction developer and licensed architect. He was born in Vienna, Austria in 1936. He has designed and built in California, Japan and Mexico, notwithstanding, his fame is due mainly to his theoretic contributions to this discipline. He produced and validated, in collaboration with Sarah Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, an architectural system: a language of patterns designed to permit any human being -and possibly another sufficiently complex machine, where complexity counts-