The following presentation was recorded live in San Jose, California, October of 1996, at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA). A full transcript of this talk is available here: http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee/ieeetext.htm Video transcoded from VHS and provided by The Understanding Group (TUG): http://understandinggroup.com/2011/11/christopher-alexander-from-1996-patterns-in-architecture/

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1. Awesome!.. a living legend -
2. Such a disappointment.
3. When one creates "living structure" and "wholeness" the next generation takes care in its modification and ultimately the built structure escapes the hammer of demolition and destruction. The core question is : What lasts past the needs of the current generation in the cyclic sense of life and death ?
4. Inspired by Alexander's living structure or the notion of wholeness (life and beauty), I developed a mathematical model of wholeness, called beautimeter, that is able to address (1) why a design is beautiful, and (2) how much beauty the design has; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272159333_Wholeness_as_a_Hierarchical_Graph_to_Capture_the_Nature_of_Space
5. I'm pretty sure that Christopher Alexander is a space alien, here to teach us (humans) the error of our ways. Well...I for one, am absorbing every syllable he utters.
6. unfolding wholeness.
7. l like him but I hope you get a good sleep before watching that :-)
8. ¿how can I communicate with architect Alexander?, i need email him, thanks
9. Thats a important one, contributor ever.
10. Interesting to re-encounter CA after being introduced to Saligaros, post-Soleri. "The architect as poet-philosopher/mathematician-artist" returns architecture to the realm of frozen music.
11. the nature of order part 4 changed my life.
12. There's an evolution of this content from the original talk and transcript into a 1999 article by Christopher Alexander, 1999. “The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World.” IEEE Software, 16 (5): 71–82. doi:10.1109/52.795104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/52.795104.  
    
    Following through the video and aligning to the revised text, there's significant divergence starting at 46 minutes.  Some of that is captured at http://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/19961008-christopher-alexander-patterns-in-architecture-oopsla-96/ .
13. Thank you for uploading!
14. Thanks for uploading this! Saw they very beginning ages ago and always been looking for it since.
15. "Making wholeness heals the maker." CA will be remembered in the future in the same breath as galileo and descartes. He has shown the empirical connection between our environment and the human soul.