Pattern Language: Book early version
01/01/1967Versions of early thoughts discussing concepts relating to the nature of a universal pattern language which would be able to create wholeness in the built environment. The Table of Contents lists the following chapters:
1) What is a Whole Environment: Wholeness – Wholeness of an Individual Person – Definition of an Environment – Definition of Environmental Structure – Definition of a “Whole” Environment – Like Nature; 2) Pattern Language: Definition of Pattern Language – Environment Gets its Structure from Pattern Languages – Babel of Pattern Language Cannot Generate a “Whole” Environment; 3) Universal Pattern Language: What then is Design, Evolution of Universal Language – Specifications for a Universal Language; 4) A Pattern: How to Express Design Ideas – Formal Definition of a Pattern – Subculture Cells Example – All Design Ideas Can be Expressed as Patterns; 5) Pattern Language: Language as Memory – Abstract Structure of Language – Arrangement of Language in an Evolving Book – Use of Memory, Construction Relevant Sublanguage; 6) Synthesis: Pattern Language is Creative – Rules of Synthesis – Examples of Berkeley Housing – Form, Consistency, Unity – Generating True Variety; 7) Functional Validity: Need for Objective Criterion of Validity – Normal Form for Problem Statement, Tendencies – Conditions Which a Pattern Must Meet – Stress is Cumulative – Theory of Goals and Objectives not Correct – Non-Purposive Nature of Design – Examples of 7 Ages of Men, Compete Culture Designed – House Entrances; 8) Changes in the Profession: Change in Attitude, Community of Designers, not Ego – Change in Professional Practice and Education – Transmission of Language: Everyone in Society a Designer – Technology of Process; 9) Poem: Language, an Effort to Build a Unified Picture – Language as a Poem of Life – Language as Creator of Consciousness.
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A Pattern Language
01/01/1977
“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 ...
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The Timeless Way of Building
01/01/1979
“The Timeless Way of Building” is the opening work in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. Here Alexander introduces the ideas behind the succeeding books. The book lays the foundation of the series. It ...