>
> Christopher Alexander = Erfinder des DesignPattern
>
> Sein Unternehmen:
> http://www.patternlanguage.com
>
> Eine Einführung in Alexanders Werk bietet
> http://www.uni-weimar.de/~donath/c-alexander98/ca98-html.htm
>
> Begründer und "Vater" der Pattern-Bewegung. Architekt und
> emeritierter Professor an der University of California at Berkeley.
>
> "Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over
> again in our environment, and then describes the core of the
> solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this
> solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way
> twice."
>
> (Übertragung): "Jedes Pattern beschreibt einerseits ein immer
> wiederkehrendes Problem einer Umgebung, andererseits die
> Grundidee der Problemlösung. Dies geschieht in einer Weise, dass
> man die Lösung unzählige Male wiederverwenden kann, ohne sich
> jemals exakt zu wiederholen."
>
> Er beschrieb etwa 250 solcher Patterns für den Bereich der
> Architektur und löste damit auch in anderen Bereichen, vor allem in
> der Softwareentwicklung einen Boom aus, eine Jagd nach
> "wiederverwendbaren Lösungsmustern".
>
> "It is the programs that control the shape of manufacturing, the
> shape of the transportation industries, construction management,
> diagnosis in medicine, printing and publishing. You almost can't
> name a facet of the world which is not already, to some very strong
> degree, under the influence of the programs that are being written
> to manage and control those entities or those operations. And this
> is still in its infancy."
>
> aus:
>
> What the future holds in store: The Generativity Problem and the
> Generation of a Living World
>
> http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee/ieeetext.htm#6
>
>
>
> ChristopherAlexander was born in Vienna, Austria,
> and raised in Oxford and Chichester, England. He graduated from
> Cambridge University, where he studied Mathematics and
> Architecture. He then obtained a Ph. D. in Architecture at Harvard
> University. For his Ph. D. Thesis, later published as the book
> Notes on the Synthesis of Form, he was awarded the first Gold
> Medal for Research by the American Institute of Architects. Since
> 1963 he has been Professor of Architecture at the University of
> California at Berkeley, and Director of the Institute for
> Environmental Structure. In 1980, Professor Alexander was elected
> member of the Swedish Royal Academy; and in 1996 he was
> elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
> Christopher Alexander is a Trustee of the Prince of Wales's
> Institute of Architecture.
>
> aus: DseWiki 2811
>
>
MfG, Karl Dietz
http://www.karldietz.de
http://karldietz.blogspot.com
