A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
of Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson (Goodreads Author), Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel
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At the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ‘languages,’ which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable making a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. ‘Patterns,’ the units of this language, are answers to design problems: how high should a window sill be?; how many stories should a building have?; how much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?More than 250 of the patterns in this language are outlined, each consisting of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seems likely that they will be a part of human nature and human action as much in five hundred years as they are today.A Pattern Language is related to Alexander’s other works in the Center for Environmental Structure series: The Timeless Way of Building (introductory volume) and The Oregon Experiment.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1216 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Publication Date August 25th 1977
- First Publication 10/29/77
- Language English
- ISBN 9780195019193
- Edition Not informed
- Category Arts & Culture
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