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The Oregon Experiment (Hardcover)
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The Oregon Experiment (Hardcover)
Series: Center for Environmental Structure Series, 3
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After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues
at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a
major statement in the form of three works 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, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment.
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 fo 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.
This book is the master plan for the University of Oregon, and is
now being implemented at that university; but it shows at the same
time how any community the size of a university or small town might
go about designing its own future environment-with all members of
the community participating personally. It is a concrete example at
the Center's theories in practice, showing in simple detail, with
numerous illustrations, how to implement six guiding principles:
organic order, participation, piecemeal growth, patterns,
diagnosis, and coordination.
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