A CITY IS NOT A TREE By Christopher Alexander ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christopher Wolfgang Alexander (born: 4th October 1936, in Vienna, Austria) is a widely influential British-American architect, design theorist, and currently a professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. As a theorist, teacher, author, practicing architect, and builder, Alexander has taken it upon himself to question everything, from construction details and the effects of color to the process by which a global species makes and remakes its environment and, beyond, to the objective bases of beauty itself. Questions like, what is an architect? What is a good building? Should architects strive for beauty in their work? What is beauty? Christopher Alexander has explored such fundamental questions in greater depth or breadth, or with greater persistence, clarity, and originality of thought. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including ur
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