Christopher Alexander and Network Theory

The aim of this article is not to give a complete picture of 60 years of his work. I suggest you read his books for that. Rather it is to explain just enough to see the arc and place it in context. In his early work, “ Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964) ” (abbreviated in the following as NotSoF ), Christopher Alexander explored a mathematical, network-based approach to design. He conceptualised…