Bronx Multi-Service Center
1968 to 1973An early study of the use of pattern language in community designed buildings. The Bronx Multi-Service Center is one of the eight centers included in the book "A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers", and presents a prototype for these buildings. A multi-service center being a community facility, was intended to provide a variety of special facilities to citizens, and to solve some of the problems of low income communities. The design of the prototype multi-service center was based on a system of generating principles, which could be transformed according to local circumstances, but which never fail to convey the essentails. This was developed as a system of patterns with rules for combining them, being one of the first pattern languages specific to a type of building, developed by C.E.S. These first patterns contributed, among others to the development of "A Pattern Language", published in 1977.
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Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages
The first patterns were developed in 1967 by a group of people working together with Christopher Alexander in the Center for Environmental Structure. Between 1968 and 1976 the first pattern languages were developed and tested for particular projects undertaken by ...
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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...
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A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers
1968
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 ...
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A Pattern Language
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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"Sleeping OK" Pattern - Original
01/07/1968
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern #94 Sleeping in Public. Revised in Jun-1970.
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"Pedestrian Density in Public Places" Pattern
01/07/1968
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern #123 Pedestrian Density .
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"Building Thoroughfare" Pattern
01/07/1968
Early formulation of pattern on a 2-page format with: Title of Pattern, Photo, Statement of Problem, Solution, Diagram, Author/s, Date, revision Date and Notes; included in “A Pattern Language”, pattern #101 Building Thoroughfare. Revised in Sep-1970.
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