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As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of ...Show synopsisAs an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment--defined a radical and fundamently new process of environmental design. Alexander now gives us the latest book in his series--a book that puts his theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment he has envisioned. The Production of Houses centers around a group of buildings which Alexander and his associates built in 1976 in northern Mexico. Each house is different and the book explains how each family helped to lay out and construct its own home according to the family's own needs and in the framework of the pattern language. Numerous diagrams and tables as well as a variety of anecdotes make the day-today process clear. The Mexican project, however, is only the starting point for a comprehensive theory of housing production. The Production of Houses describes seven principles which apply to any system of production in any part of the world for housing of any cost in any climate or culture or at any density. In the last part of the book, "The Shift of Paradigm," Alexander describes, in detail, the devastating nature of the revolution in world view which is contained in his proposal for housing construction, and its overall implications for deep-seated cultural change.Hide synopsis
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Description:Very Good Condition in Fair jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall...Very Good Condition in Fair jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Text clean. Binding tight. Jacket chipped on corners and spine ends. Jacket lightly sunned. Jacket spine rubbed. Boards lightly bumped and shelf worn at corners, edges and spine ends. Bottom front board has a severe bump. Quantity Available: 1. Inventory No: 512029.
Description:Fair to Good in Fair jacket. Hardcover Textblock is tanning but...Fair to Good in Fair jacket. Hardcover Textblock is tanning but unmarked. Red boards are bumped and fading. Front board and spine have GILT lettering. Dust jacket is faded, dust soiled and one corner is clipped but price is not clipped. 383 pgs.
Description:Good in J Good jacket. Third printing; jacket lightly soiled...Good in J Good jacket. Third printing; jacket lightly soiled/rubbed, spine sunned; cover lightly soiled/rubbed/bumped, corners lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly bumped; edges lightly soiled; ffep has erasures; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted.
Description:Very Good Minus in Good jacket. 8vo. 381 pp., illustrated...Very Good Minus in Good jacket. 8vo. 381 pp., illustrated throughout including several color plates. Head and heel of spine, corners and top edges of boards, and a few page corners bumped. A clean, unmarked copy. Jacket clipped at lower corner of front flap, a bit soiled, handled and edgeworn, with several small chips and tears.
