An Epistemological Critique of Pattern Language and the Informal Building System: Christopher Alexander and His Collaborators
Resource
建築與城鄉學報, 4, 049-065
Journal
建築與城鄉學報
Journal Issue
4
Pages
049-065
Date Issued
1989-02
Date
1989-02
Author(s)
Hsia, C.J.
Abstract
The essay is an epistemological critique of the approach of Christopher Alexander as one of theoretical models in the current discourse of architectural design. The critique examines the problematic, its epistemological presupposition, its absence and presence of the discursive practice of Christopher Alexander and his collaborators as the base of our theoretical construction. First, the evolution of Alexander's approach is reviewed in its social and historical context. Then, the author elaborates upon the substance of Alexander's theoretical discourse in three different aspects to see how he deals with these issues: the spatial form, form-context relationship and application. Finally, to conclude this epistemological review, a social critique of Alexander's perspective of the cultural form of space concentrates on two methodological problems: 1. Mystified structure and consciousness of space, 2. The informal building system in the "techno-economic restructuring process". Therefore, Alexander's approach of pattern language and the informal building system is a provocative, substantive theory underlying a radical world view, but he only asserts to change the underlying reality of space in architectural discourse as providing one of our refuge in the cultural climate of post-modernism
Subjects
空間模式語言
非正式營造系統
亞歷山大．克里斯多夫（Christopher Alexander）
Type
journal article