Article

Entwerfen mit einer Pattern Language – Moshav Shorashim / Design with a Pattern Language – Moshav Shorashim

01/03/1984

Article

Authors:

Howard Davis

Published in:

ARCH+ 73: Christopher Alexander: Entwerfen mit einer Pattern Language - Special Issue, No. 73, pp. 44-45

Publisher:

ARCH+ Verlag, Berlin, Germany

Language:

German

References

Projects

Moshav Shorashim New Settlement - Master Plan, Clusters of Houses and Public Buildings 1977 to 1983

Galilee, Israel

Master Planning, Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1983

Client:

The Jewish Agency of Israel; the Ministry of Housing; the Garin Sof Ma'arav

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Amos Gitai, Howard Davis, Artemis Anninou, Nili Portugali

Contractor:

Jewish Agency general contractor and subcontractors

Project cost:

$3,000,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Generic rules for urban growth process Design Development drawings done after layout

Master Plan for a new settlement for Jewish immigrants with the social structure of a community, where land and work profits are owned collectively, but still each family has its own house. Unlike other master plans, it describes the life, the ...

Correspondence

The editor of ARCH+ journal expressing the desire to have an issue dedicated to Christopher Alexander through presenting excerpts of the "Pattern Language" and the "Timeless Way of Building", as well as projects Alexander would choose from a proposed list. The purpose was to give Alexander a 'comprehensive introduction to the German architecture database' 15/07/1983

Publication, Article Publication, Permission Request

Sender:

Nikolaus Kuhnert, Amtsgericht Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden, Germany

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter

Language:

German