Chickens Without Heads: A Response to Protzen

Most probably student thoughts on J. P. Protzen’s article “The Poverty of the Pattern Language” published in the Concrete magazine of the College for Environmental Design, on Alexander’s theory and standing in the academic and professional world, and the reactions ...

In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...

Christopher Alexander's research for a central quality which he named "the quality without a name", was a search for those attributes and circumstances which give life to events, relationships, buildings and spaces. It set the foundation for identifying the patterns ...

“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...