Record

Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Music School Sub Language Now

01/01/1971

Patterns for Project, List of Patterns

2-page revised list of the 59 patterns forming a sublanguage for the School of Music.

Authors:

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

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 ...

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 ...

Reports

Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Theory and Practice 01/08/1971

Project, Project Report

Authors:

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

403-page second draft of a project report on the preparation of a master plan for the University of Oregon. The report has to halves; Part 1 deals with theory and Part 2 deals with practice. Part 1 outlines the theoretical ...

Records

Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Project for the School of Music 01/01/1971

Project, Design Process, Patterns for Project, Proposal Brief w/sketches

Authors:

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

13 pages describing the process followed by a specific group of users, for identifying problems and then designing the pattern solutions for the School of Music. Process followed in one week, is illustrated in a sequence of schematic design sketches ...