Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-made Things-Why They Came to Be the Way They Are and How They Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781589798083)

Christopher Williams has lectured on and written many articles about the theory of design, and he has taught design and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Cleveland Art Institute; the University of Alberta in Canada; and in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University. He has also lectured at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He graduated from New York's Pratt Institute, attended classes at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and earned a Ph.D. in design theory from Antioch College. His first book was Craftsmen of Necessity, which was published in 1974. He lives in Big Sur, California, where he writes and practices architecture.