This is the tenth lecture in the series: “Algorithmic Sustainable Design”, by Nikos A. Salingaros, Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at The University of Texas at San Antonio. All the lectures from a course given in 2008 are available on the Internet. 

ASD 10: Codes that generate life (Lecture)

Texts discussed: 

  • Christopher Alexander (2001) The Nature of Order, Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California. 
  • Christopher Alexander (2009) “Harmony-Seeking Computations”, Keynote Speech at the International Workshop “The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation”, University of York, UK, April 2005:

Further reading: 

  • Christopher Alexander (2021) Sample Construction Contract. LivingNeighborhoods.com. (https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/library/contracts/main-contract.htm)
  • Christopher Alexander (2021) Sample Construction Subcontract. LivingNeighborhoods.com. (https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/library/contracts/sub-contract.htm)
  • Christopher Alexander, S. Ishikawa, M. Silverstein, M. Jacobson, I. Fiksdahl-King & S. Angel (1977) A Pattern Language. 
  • Christopher Alexander, R. Schmidt, B. Hanson, M. Moore & M. W. Mehaffy (2008) Generative Codes, Chapter 1.1. in New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future, edited by Tigran Haas, Rizzoli, New York, USA, pages 14-29.
  • Christopher Day & Rosie Parnell (2007) Consensus Design: Socially Inclusive Process, Routledge, London, UK. 
  • European Council of Town Planners (2003) The New Charter of Athens 2003: The European Council of Town Planners’ Vision for Cities in the 21st century, Alinea Editrice, Florence, Italy.
  • Michael Mehaffy, Y. Kryazheva, A. Rudd & N. A. Salingaros (2019) Pattern 13.1: SLUM UPGRADE, in A New Pattern Language for Growing Regions: Places, Networks, Processes, Sustasis Press, Portland, Oregon, USA. 
  • Nobel Peace Prize (2006) Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, The Norwegian Nobel Institute. (https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Prize-winners/Prizewinner-documentation/Muhammad-Yunus-Grameen-Bank)
  • Nikos Salingaros (2005; 2014) Principles of Urban Structure, Sustasis Press, Portland, Oregon, USA; Techne Press, Amsterdam, Holland; Vajra Books, Kathmandu, Nepal. Chapter 6: Connecting the Fractal City. 
  • Nikos Salingaros, D. Brain, A. Duany, M. W. Mehaffy & E. Philibert-Petit (2019) Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure, Chapters published online in three languages, ArchDaily and Plataforma Arquitectura. 
  • Lucien Steil, Nikos Salingaros & Michael W. Mehaffy (2008) Growing Sustainable Suburbs: An Incremental Strategy for Reconstructing Sprawl, Chapter 10.2 in New Urbanism & Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future, Tigran Haas, Editor, Rizzoli, New York, pages 262-274. 
  • David Sucher (2016) City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village, City Comforts Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA. 

An accompanying book contains the revised lecture notes: Algorithmic Sustainable Design — Twelve Lectures on Architecture, Sustasis Press, Portland, Oregon (2010, 2014). (US Edition), (European Edition), and (Asian Edition)