Drawing

Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Sketches – Pattern “Classroom Distribution”

01/01/1971

Architectural Design, Sketches

Two comparative drawings of the university site map depicting the classroom distribution; the first shows the existing one, while the second the proposed one, which is based on a smaller proportion of students per faculty office.

Designers:

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

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Project

Master Plan for the University of Oregon 1969 to 1971

Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Realized , Completed in 1971 and impletented

Client:

University of Oregon - Mr. Robert S. Harris, Dean of the School of Architecture and Chairman of the user planning committee

C.E.S. staff:

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

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by clients and C.E.S. Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Diagnosis and repair process

A complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Scientific Research

Published Books

The Oregon Experiment 01/01/1975

Publication, 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 ...