The Linz Café, Das Linz Café

“The Linz Café”, a bilingual book, both in German and English, is the fourth in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. The book describes the application of the theory to a single building commissioned by the organizers of the 1980 summer exposition “Forum Design” in Linz, Austria. Christopher Alexander notes in the Introduction: “The Linz Café is one of the first buildings in which I have succeeded in carrying out almost all the intentions expressed in the earlier volumes of this series. It is a small three-story building, built on the banks of the Danube in Linz.” This book tells an intimate story of the conception and realization of the building.