Arch. 201, Fall 1978 – Design I on Design with Pattern Languages: Assignments for the remainder of the quarter

01/11/1978

Design Studio Course, Teaching Assignment

Instructions for preparation of work for two assignments; 1. Studies of ornament, for making drawings of ornaments by using the centering process and the geometric properties, and 2. A drawing of a city, for creating a town which embodies all the patterns (Patterns 1-94) in the first section of “A Pattern Language”.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Howard Davis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Academic Course

Design I: Design with Pattern Languages 1978

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Howard Davis

Enrolled students:

Artemis Anninou, Shohreh Daemi, Hermann Diederich, Hubert Froyen, Ramzi Kawar, Hye Myoung Kim, Takeshi Kimura, James McLane, Diana Martinez, Leslie Moldow, Hansjoachim Neis, Mahn Oh, Carsten Schmunk, Alice Sung, …

The course work included three assignments, covering different scales of design: 1) Design of a house; 2) Ornament in buildings; 3) Morphology of a city.

References

Published Books

A Pattern Language 01/01/1977

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:

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

“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 ...