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Part I. Patterns of Software – excerpt from “Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community” by Richard P. Gabriel
01/01/1996
Contents
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"Patterns of Software -Tales from the Software Community" book by Richard Gabriel: Suggestions for ways to make the contents of the Foreword more applicable, connected and contextual
30/01/1996
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"Patterns of Software -Tales from the Software Community" book by Richard Gabriel: Letting Christopher Alexander know that his Foreword is the only missing part of Dick Gabriel's manuscript as he has now completed all required OUP information and style changes
06/03/1996
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"Patterns of Software -Tales from the Software Community" book by Richard Gabriel: Request to quickly complete the Foreword, decline to complete, and communicate the choice, since the project is past due and must be submitted to its final stages. Assisting in the editing of the Forward was also offered
10/04/1996
References
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Patterns in Software Development
Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...
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Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
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The Oregon Experiment
01/01/1975
The third volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Oregon Experiment” is the first of the series to describe in full detail how the theory presented in “A Pattern Language” and ...
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A Pattern Language
01/01/1977
“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 ...
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The Timeless Way of Building
01/01/1979
“The Timeless Way of Building” is the opening work in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. Here Alexander introduces the ideas behind the succeeding books. The book lays the foundation of the series. It ...
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