模式語言及非正式營造系統的認識論批判：亞歴山大及其同志

An Epistemological Critique of Pattern Language and the Informal Building System: Christopher Alexander and His Collaborators

夏鑄九(Chu-Joe Hsia)

《國立台灣大學建築與城鄉研究學報》 4期 (1989/02) Pp. 49-65

https://doi.org/10.6154/JBP.1989.4.004

摘要

本文將亞歴山大•克里斯多夫的研究視爲當前建築設計論述中的理論模型之一來進行認識論的批判。我們檢視亞歴山大及其同志們論述實踐之疑旨、認議論的預設、以及其空白沈默的與其表白發言的部分，以做爲未來頭論建構的基礎。首先，我們在歴史與社會的脈絡組織中回顧亞氏研究方法的演進。其次，以三個不同的層次來詳細闡述亞氏之理論論述，審視它如何處理空間形式、形式－脈絡組織的關係與應用的課題。最後，做爲本文之結論，對亞氏對空間的文化形式的觀點提出雨點方法論上的質疑：1.神秘的空間結構與意識、2.在「技術－經濟再結構過程」中的非正式營造系統的角色。所以，亞氏對模式語言與非正式營造系統的研究方法是一個迷人的、實體性的理論，潛藏了激進的世界觀，然而他像是提供了後現代文化氣候下的避難所，僅僅試圖在建築論述之中去改變空間潛藏的現實。

並列摘要

The essay is an epistemological critique of the approach of Christopher Alexander as one of theoretical models in the current discourse of architectural design. The critique examines the problematic, its epistemological presupposition, its absence and presence of the discursive practice of Christopher Alexander and his collaborators as the base of our theoretical construction. First, the evolution of Alexander's approach is reviewed in its social and historical context. Then, the author elaborates upon the substance of Alexander's theoretical discourse in three different aspects to see how he deals with these issues: the spatial form, form-context relationship and application. Finally, to conclude this epistemological review, a social critique of Alexander's perspective of the cultural form of space concentrates on two methodological problems: 1. Mystified structure and consciousness of space, 2. The informal building system in the ”techno-economic restructuring process”. Therefore, Alexander's approach of pattern language and the informal building system is a provocative, substantive theory underlying a radical world view, but he only asserts to change the underlying reality of space in architectural discourse as providing one of our refuge in the cultural climate of post-modernism