Article

The Confounding Issue of Collaboration Between Architects and Artists

14/06/1992

Article

Authors:

Kent Bloomer

Published in:

Places: Patterns and Personality, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 58-63

Publisher:

M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

References

Projects

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 ...