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70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form

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A PhD in Architecture at Harvard

His was the first PhD in architecture awarded at Harvard. He's super academic and always exists in the academy. But not particularly, it's more like universities generally rather than architecture schools. And basically spends his whole career teaching in different places and ends up in Oregon,. Yes, he builds a sort of, I think is a kind of part of the university there, but he has his own little school.

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