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The Environment; summary of a work in progress, with Editor’s Note by Sasha Illich

01/01/1971

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Scientific Research 2 Items

Theory of 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 ...
The Quality without a Name

Christopher Alexander's research for a central quality which he named "the quality without a name", was a search for those attributes and circumstances which give life to events, relationships, buildings and spaces. It set the foundation for identifying the patterns ...

Published Books 1 Items

A Pattern Language 01/01/1977

Publication, Original Book

“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 ...

Articles 3 Items

Academic Courses 1 Items

Teaching at Centro Intercultural de Documentacion, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on March 1971: Design with a communal pattern language 1971

Academic,

Series of workshops taught at Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC), a higher education campus founded by Ivan Illich. CES was invited to participate in the school activities; the contact was made by UCB professor Roslyn Lindheim, a friend of Ivan ...