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Christopher Alexander

1936 - 2022

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Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Alexander has received more than 700,069 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Christopher Alexander is the 300th most popular architect (down from 296th in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 618th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Architect.

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  • 700k

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  • 58.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Christopher Alexander ranks 300 out of 518. Before him are Bruno Zevi, Charles Percier, John Vanbrugh, Ernst May, Konstantin Thon, and Jan Santini Aichel. After him are Carlo Rossi, Moshe Safdie, Paul Wallot, Giovanni da Udine, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and William Chambers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Christopher Alexander ranks 236. Before him are Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Éder Jofre, Jerónimo Saavedra, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Reiner Klimke, and Keir Dullea. After him are Yuri Ilyenko, Knud Enemark Jensen, Joe E. Tata, Im Kwon-taek, Ivonka Survilla, and José Policarpo. Among people deceased in 2022, Christopher Alexander ranks 207. Before him are Nick Bollettieri, Lando Buzzanca, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Éder Jofre, William Klein, and Philippe Streiff. After him are Tony Brooks, Titus Buberník, Pharoah Sanders, Milutin Šoškić, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, and George Crumb.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Christopher Alexander ranks 633 out of 1,424. Before him are Paul Neumann (1875), Guido Starhemberg (1657), Hermann Maier (1972), İlber Ortaylı (1947), Agnes of Austria (1151), and Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (1869). After him are Werner Faymann (1960), Johann Michael Vogl (1768), Heinrich Messner (1939), Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein (1802), Tina Blau (1845), and Franz Tost (1956).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Austria

Among architects born in Austria, Christopher Alexander ranks 11. Before him are Hans Hollein (1934), Camillo Sitte (1843), Ettore Sottsass (1917), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), and Josef Frank (1885). After him are Heinrich von Ferstel (1828), Jakob Prandtauer (1660), Clemens Holzmeister (1886), Baron Karl von Hasenauer (1833), Mihály Pollack (1773), and Károly Kós (1883).

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