Article

The Wondrous Insights of Christopher Alexander: Excerpts from “A Pattern Language”

01/08/1981

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

The Tarrytown Letter, No. 6, pp. 2-3

Publisher:

The Tarrytown Group, Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.

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 ...

Projects

Hudson River Restaurant 1979 to 1980

Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.

Commercial, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mr. Robert Schwartz

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $4,000,000

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

A multi-level restaurant complex on the Hudson river above New York City, with a main restaurant, cafes, small restaurants, discotheques, and docking facility for boats. The total area of buildings was 24,000 square feet. The entire complex to be built ...

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