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A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction (Hardcover, Reissue)
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A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction (Hardcover, Reissue)
Series: Center for Environmental Structure Series
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your
family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your
town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a
workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in
the actual process of construction.
After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues
at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a
major statement in the form of three books which will, in their
words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture,
building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas
and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of
Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language.
At the core of these books is the idea that people should design
for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This
idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the
architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation
that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by
architects but by the people.
At the core of the books, too, is the point 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 forma system which gives them
coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will
enable a person to make 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 pattern
language are given: each consists 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 seemly
likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action,
as much in five hundred years as they are today.
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