This is the fourth 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 free on the Internet. 

ASD 04: Seashells, Hyperspace, and the Sacred (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: 

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)