A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Christopher Alexanderamazon.com
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Tye has identified seven architectural elements, what he calls the “super vitamins” of enriched environments, that help us to be healthier and more in sync with our surroundings, and several of these are pulled directly from nature: natural light, natural materials, and structures reminiscent of natural shapes. He uses evidence-based design, which
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For this, we turn to pattern languages, an organized and coherent set of patterns , each describing a problem and the core of a solution, illustrated with examples . The term was coined by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa in their 1977 book, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction which contains hundreds of pa... See more
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
experience design as a lens for the study of space, calling on readers to recognize the designed elements of the spaces they visit and inhabit.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
‘The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows.’12