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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 ...Show synopsisYou 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.Hide synopsis
Description:Very good in good dust jacket. Edge worn dust jacket. Name plate...Very good in good dust jacket. Edge worn dust jacket. Name plate inside of cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1216 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Description:Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1216...Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1216 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Like New. Light shelf wear. Appears unread.
Description:Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0195019199. Hardcover is...Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0195019199. Hardcover is burgundy with gold blind lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with dozens of b/w diagrams, drawings and photographs. "...is a working document for such an architecture. It is an archetypal language which allows lay persons to design for themselves. 'I believe this to be perhaps the most important book on architectural design published this century. Every library, every school, every environmental action group, every architect, and every first-year student should have a copy'." [Tony Ward, Architectural Design].; Cess Center for Environmental Series; B & W diagrams, figures; 7.90 X 5.90 X 2.10 inches; xliv, 1171 pages; Cover has slight rubbing, bumping; first two leafs have the bottom torn, but they appear to have been blank in that area. DJ has light shelfwear, rubbing, sunning; in a mylar cover.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. This book is still in it's...Very good in very good dust jacket. This book is still in it's plastic wrapper w/$49.95 price tag-all proceeds benefit local library.
Description:Very good condition with text clean & binding tight / lightly...Very good condition with text clean & binding tight / lightly soiled dust jacket protected by brodart wrap. 1171pp.
Description:Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Full red cloth binding...Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Full red cloth binding. Later printing. Clean, crisp and unmarked. xliv, 1171pp. Illustrations. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed at corners, with a mildly sunned spine, short tear to back panel. New mylar cover.
Description:Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Recent printing....Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Recent printing. Clean and unmarked, with a couple page corners creased. xliv, 1171pp. Illustrations. Dust jacket iin a new mylar cover.
The great volume of Christopher Alexander is a basic approach in architectural design theory. As it was and is still separate from the main streamlines of architectural theory it will retain its validity for a long period.
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I am a student of Landscape Architecture and find this text very helpful. It has compiled tons of research and knowledge about patterns found in cities, back yards, children's playgournds, farm houses . . . you name it it's probably in there. Each section is concise and easily understood with a ...
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This book is an architect's "bible" ... with complete attention to the natural order as it supports humankind's building and organization efforts, big and small, from beautiful town layouts that provide sane, smooth, and supportive living ... to the details of pathway patterns within a home for people ...
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