Environmental Pattern Language Research Grant: Authorization for Transfer of Grant Funds

“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 ...

In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...

Christopher Alexander's research for a central quality which he named "the quality without a name", was a search for those attributes and circumstances which give life to events, relationships, buildings and spaces. It set the foundation for identifying the patterns ...

Official file copy of the approved re-budgeting of unexpended funds for the Environmental Pattern Language project and the extension of grant period –noted by hand– from 31-Aug-1972 up to 31-Dec-1973.

Report by CES on the research grant expenditures from 1-Jan-1971 to 31-Aug-1972 for the project Environmental Pattern Language.

65-page grant application to the Department of Public Health, Education and Welfare / Public Health Service for covering the cost for the 3-year CES research on the hypothesis that users of an environment use the pattern language to design that ...