Go BackPeople Rebuilding Berkeley
Spring 1974Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
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 ...
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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...
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Etna street Cottage: Photographs of the building
1 1) Viewed among trees with the recessed second floor
01/01/1974
Two images depicting the front view of the cottage.
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Etna street Cottage: Photographs of the building
01/01/1974
Two images depicting the second floor barrel vault’s front and back views.
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Etna street Cottage: Photographs of the layout process
01/01/1974
Two images depicting the initial step of staking out the position of the cottage on the lot.
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