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Pattern Manual and Procedures for Filing and Inputting New Patterns

01/01/1972

Pattern Format

3-page document with basic guidelines to follow for handling the creation and handling of new patterns.

Authors:

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

Content of

Published Book 1 Items

A Pattern Language 01/01/1977

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 ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Theory of Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Patterns and Pattern Languages

In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...

Records 1 Items

Pattern Manual 01/01/1972

Publication, Pattern Format

Authors:

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

Four versions of the “Pattern Manual”, intended to establish a single format for the patterns; it proposes a three-part format for each pattern, elaborates on them and provides examples of patterns foloowing the proposed format. The final 13-page version is ...