Report

Southwest Regional Laboratory: Patterns for an Educational Research and Development Facility

01/05/1969

Project Report

Draft prepared for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Architects.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Barbara Schreiner, Ronald Walkey, Denny Abrams, Jim Smith, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (SWRL) 1969

Orange County, CA, U.S.A.

Educational, Designed

Client:

Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Barbara Schreiner, Ronald Walkey, Denny Abrams, Jim Smith

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by clients and C.E.S.

Application of the early ideas of pattern language to the design of an educational research and development facility. The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Architects (S.O.M.) asked C.E.S. to work with them on the schematic design of the SWRL ...

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 ...