Reading the series "The constant path of building" (1) masters are still on Earth

Having studied the path to constant use of architecture, I will always remember Christopher Alexander (C. Alexander) and the University of Oregon. It is strange that many people think that he has been an old man. The more authority he thinks, the more distant he is from us. However, the master has indeed entered the ancient age. Let's gossip about his personal information.

This is indeed a relatively low-key person, so that it is not very easy for me to perform human flesh on him. After several twists and turns, I found a website that details his personal information:

Http://www.pattern?age.com/leveltwo/ca.htm.

In short, C. Alexander was born in 1936 and is a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Bachelor of engineering, master of mathematics, and Doctor of Architecture (several titles, achievements, and honors are omitted below ).

The two most brilliant architectures of the master's life are:

1.The eternal path of building

English nameThe timeless way of the building. Consists of 27 chapters and 3 parts, namely quality, gate, and way ). The relationship between the three is that, through the Tao (methodology), the door (language) is upgraded to the quality (model ).

2.Architectural model language

English name: The pattern language. It describes a total of 253 modes in towns, neighborhoods, residences, gardens, and rooms. Masters hope to abstract these hundreds of common models, so that people can focus more on "trimming" (that is, restructuring) to make the building vibrant and harmonious.

Programmers are more familiar with the "Eternal path of architecture"-of course, this is also a minority, and there are many unknown people. Among the few, there are even more BT, even more than 2nd books, more than 250 models, and more than 1200 pages. Don't look at me. I printed them all and threw them to one side when I saw 10th modes. My life is doomed to be lost in this discipline, but I must train the next generation to be a Doctor of Tongji or tianda architecture to fulfill my unfinished wish.

The lower the tone, the less difficult it is to write in the rainy night mode. Let's go back to the topic. In fact, Chinese people prefer to compare "the eternal path of building" to "The Tao of morality", which is more like a philosophical book, while "architectural model language", this is the definition, classification, application scenarios, and implementation methods of the theme, which is a bit like the familiar gof 23 and refactoring. there is also the blog garden's "menstrual Stickers"-related articles on the design model.

Alexander is fond of Chinese culture, especially the "mustard garden pictorial Biography. This is just a painting book. I went to Shanghai bookstore to hold this book on the edge of the cultural circle for a long time, I finally figured out why the old saying in China is better at painting than the monk. In fact, the painting and biography of the mustard garden are the same things as the moral Sutra:

Daosheng 1: second in life, second in life, and third in life.

That is to say, in software design, the process of nurturing a mature system is a process of gradual differentiation and perfection. As Alexander described in the eternal path of building: a process from whole to part.

To answer this question, we will go to the unsung characteristics. Then we will not have to write it below. This chapter is only for Master yy. More topics can be found in the following chapters, especially my reading notes.