2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ideological Background of Christopher Alexander's Early Theory of Design
Project/Area Number |
19560618
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Town planning/Architectural planning
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Research Institution | Kobe University |
Principal Investigator |
NAGASAKA Ichiro Kobe University, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (10314501)
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Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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Keywords | クリストファー・アレグザンダー / 意味論 / 統語論 / パタンランゲージ / 認知心理学 |
Research Abstract |
In this research project, we describe the overall picture of the pattern language by examining the literature in the 1960s based on the correspondence to the mathematical structuralism and the Hilbert's formalism. We examine the semantics of pattern language and show that Alexander's definition of the design problems gives the semantic framework of the language. After describing the pattern language can be regarded as a syntactical object like proofs in the formal systems, we discuss the limit of the pattern language and give one possible reason why he needed to explore "geometric features" of forms generated by the patterns.
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Research Products
(12 results)