Part I. Patterns of Software – excerpt from “Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community” by Richard P. Gabriel

4-page draft of the forward written by Christopher Alexander for the book “Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community” by Richard P. Gabriel.

Request for non-exclusive world rights to reproduce specific art from the books “A Pattern Language” and “A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets”, to be used in the forthcoming book “Early Pattern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...