The Oregon Experiment After Twenty Years

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 ...

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...

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 complete user-based master plan for the University of Oregon, in Eugene, introducing a new planning theory, which replaced the predominant theory of master plans. It gave primacy to the use of pattern languages and user design, in the continuous ...