Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (SWRL)

1969

Orange County, CA, U.S.A.

Educational, Designed

Application of the early ideas of pattern language to the design of an educational research and development facility. The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Architects (S.O.M.) asked C.E.S. to work with them on the schematic design of the SWRL facility. C.E.S. developed more than hundred patterns after intensive field study, using interviewing and discplined observation; this material was supplemented by information drawn by the C.E.S. pattern library. C.E.S., S.O.M. and SWRL reviewed, criticized and finalized the patterns, which were then furnished to the designers in the architectural firm for use in the schematic development.

Client:

Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Barbara Schreiner, Ronald Walkey, Denny Abrams, Jim Smith

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by clients and C.E.S.

Contents

Reports

Southwest Regional Laboratory: Patterns for an Educational Research and Development Facility 01/05/1969

Project Report

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Barbara Schreiner, Ronald Walkey, Denny Abrams, Jim Smith, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Draft prepared for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Architects.

References

Scientific Research

Development of first Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

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 ...

Books

A Pattern Language 1977

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

No of pages:

1,171 pp

“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 ...

Articles

Pattern Language - The Contribution of Christopher Alexander's Centre for Environmental Structure to the Science of Design 01/01/1970

Publication, Article

Authors:

Roger Montgomery

Published in:

Architectural Forum, Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 52-59

Publisher:

Urban America Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.