Article

The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World

01/09/1999

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

IEEE Software, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 71-82

Publisher:

IEEE Computer Society, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

Patterns in Software Development

Areas of focus:

Connections to Other Sciences

Guiding idea:

Software Development

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

Published Books

A Pattern Language 01/01/1977

Publication, 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 ...

Public Events

Eleventh Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA '96) 06/10/1996 to 10/10/1996

San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Conference, Professional Event

Organized by:

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM/SIGPLAN) - James Coplien of Bell Laboratories, Program Committee Chair

Keynote Speech on “The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World”, published in “IEEE Software” Journal in 1999.

Visual & Audio Materials

Selections from OOPSLA '96 - Patterns in Architecture 06/10/1996

Public Event, Video, Tape

One hour recording of Christopher Alexander’s keynote speech on Patterns in Architecture, in the ACM Conference on “Object Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications” .

Records

The Origins of Pattern Theory: The Future of the Theory, and the Generation of a Living World, keynote speech to the 1996 OOPSLA Convention 06/10/1996

Public Event, Event Document, Lecture Transcript

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

19-page transcript of the live recording of Christopher Alexander’s keynote speech at the ACM Convention on “Object Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications”, with an introduction by Jim Coplien.