Christopher Alexander’s search for beauty in architecture, and in the entire man-made environment, was the focus of the 1st PURPLSOC 2017 Keynote presentation by Max Jacobson “A Building is not a Turkish Carpet – Patterns, Properties and Beauty”. Jacobson studied architecture at Berkeley and worked at the Center for Environmental Structure with Christopher Alexander for eight years, and is a co-author of the book “A Pattern Language”. The full PURPLSOC 2017 Keynote is now online!