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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 652,716 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Christopher Alexander is the 297th most popular architect (down from 284th in 2019), the 621st most popular biography from Austria (down from 580th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Architect.

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  • 19

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Christopher Alexander ranks 297 out of 424. Before him are Vlado Milunić, Christian Frederik Hansen, Lin Huiyin, Joseph Poelaert, Friedrich von Gärtner, and Steven Holl. After him are Dominikus Zimmermann, Marcello Piacentini, Heinrich Tessenow, Rudolf Wolters, Sixto Durán Ballén, and Ustad Ahmad Lahori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Christopher Alexander ranks 239. Before him are Aribert Reimann, Gerry Ashmore, Karl Lehmann, Kazuo Koike, Albert Ayler, and Floyd Westerman. After him are Mala Sinha, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Anthony Zerbe, Frank Serpico, and Tony Musante. Among people deceased in 2022, Christopher Alexander ranks 203. Before him are Cristina Calderón, Manuel Esquivel, Pablo Milanés, Antonios Naguib, Maryan Wisniewski, and Edgar Savisaar. After him are Yi-Fu Tuan, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Fidel Ramos, John Aniston, Kunimitsu Takahashi, and William Klein.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Christopher Alexander ranks 621 out of 1,237. Before him are Egon Friedell (1878), Anton von Schmerling (1805), Otto Muehl (1925), Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881), Archduchess Rosa of Austria (1906), and Heinz von Foerster (1911). After him are Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1924), Otto Ender (1875), Viktor Klima (1947), Karl Koller (1929), Hans Hermann Groër (1919), and Toni Polster (1964).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Austria

Among architects born in Austria, Christopher Alexander ranks 11. Before him are Camillo Sitte (1843), Ettore Sottsass (1917), Richard Neutra (1892), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Josef Frank (1885), and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897). After him are Jakob Prandtauer (1660), Heinrich von Ferstel (1828), Mihály Pollack (1773), Baron Karl von Hasenauer (1833), and Rudolph Schindler (1887).

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