A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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... See more
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
List of Patterns
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The Patterns
Town Patterns
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The Patterns
A pattern language has the structure of a network. [...] The sequence of patterns is both a summary of the language, and at the same time, an index to the patterns. — p. xviii
Town Patterns
We begin with that part of the language which... See more
List of Patterns
Christoper Alexander opens his book Timeless Way of Building