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Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
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Description for Pattern Language
Hardcover. In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design. Series: Center for Environmental Structure Series. Num Pages: 1216 pages, photographs and drawings throughout. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 143 x 47. Weight in Grams: 966.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
1216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
Series
Center for Environmental Structure Series
Condition
New
Weight
974g
Number of Pages
1216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195019193
SKU
V9780195019193
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
Reviews for Pattern Language
A Pattern Language by Chris Alexander changed the way I think about the way space is organised in a room, a house, a street and a town ... I keep giving it away to people who feel their homes don't quite work in the way they want them to. Every architect, estage agent and MP should read it.
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