Houses Generated by Patterns – Project #16

01/01/1969

Early Version

A hardcover volume of the early CES project series, identified as Center for Environmental Structure, Project 16, 1969, “Houses Generated by Patterns”. This copy includes a reprint of the article “Jurors’ comments on four of the international submissions” published in the Architectectural Design, 1970. The rest of the contents are identical to the published book.

Authors:

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

Publisher:

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

Content of

Book

Houses Generated by Patterns 1969

Authors:

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

Publisher:

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

No of pages:

221 pp

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 ...