Christopher Alexander: second renaissance visionary
Brown bag talk in the research group about Christopher Alexander as a pioneering second renaissance (aka integral, metamodern etc) thinker and practitioner
Today I presented a "brown bag" talk tentatively entitled: "Christopher Alexander: second renaissance visionary".
In it, I talked about how Alexander is a pioneering second renaissance (aka integral, metamodern etc) thinker and practitioner. Specifically in:
(Re) Introducing value and beauty as real - specifically in a domain of architecture and aesthetics dominated by modern/post-modern relativism
Providing a rigorous evidencing for this claim — one that includes and use reason
Whilst … transcending reason and including the transrational, mystical element (see luminous ground etc)
Providing practical techniques for applying this in building - pattern language, nature of order etc
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I found this so inspiring, Rufus! Great presentation.