Article

A Collection of Patterns which Generate Multi-Service Centers

01/01/1974

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

Published in:

Architect's Year Book 14 - The Inner City, Vol. 14, pp. 141-180

Publisher:

Elek Books Ltd., London, U.K.

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 ...

Published Books

A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers 01/01/1968

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

Publisher:

Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The first of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, notably the first pattern language for a project. It is presented as a system of generating principles, called a pattern language for multi-service centers. It includes 64 ...

Projects

Bronx Multi-Service Center 1968 to 1973

Hunts Point, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Schematic Design was completed in 1968

Client:

New York City Human Resourses Administaration, Hunts Point Community in the Bronx

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Sanford Hirshen, Sim Van der Ryn

Contractor:

Built by others

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Concept design

An early study of the use of pattern language in community designed buildings. The Bronx Multi-Service Center is one of the eight centers included in the book "A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers", and presents a prototype for these ...