Article

Whole Earth Catalogue: Pattern Books

01/04/1970

Article

Published in:

Architectural Design, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 169-170

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd., London, U.K.

References

Published Books

A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers 01/01/1968

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

Publisher:

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

The first of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, notably the first pattern language for a project. It is presented as a system of generating principles, called a pattern language for multi-service centers. It includes 64 ...
Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sanford Hirshen, Sara Ishikawa, Christie Coffin, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:

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

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...