The Oregon Experiment: Early book version

01/01/1973

Book Early Version, Complete Manuscript

149-pages unbound copy of an earlier draft version of the book. It includes foreword, introduction, 6 chapters and acknowledgements, and only code indications for the placement of the book illustrations.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

The Oregon Experiment 01/01/1975

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The third volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Oregon Experiment” is the first of the series to describe in full detail how the theory presented in “A Pattern Language” and ...

References

Scientific Research

Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...