A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers: Prepress proof

01/01/1968

Prepress Proof

An unbound 283-page oversized manuscript of 15 5/8″X11 7/8″, at the press-proof stage of the printing process, with graphs, photographs, drawings and parts of special text pasted-up on the pages.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

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

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 ...

References

Photographs

A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers: Network of patterns 01/01/1968

Publication, Book Artwork

Source:

Negative

Characteristics:

11 1/8"x13", B&W

Two large negatives, one overlaying upon the other, showing the sixty four patterns used for designing the Multi-Service Centers; a rudimentary picture of the way they fit together and interact .