Environmental Pattern Language Research Grant: Notice of Grant Awarded

12/01/1972

Research Grant

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.

Authors:

Eliot Liebow, Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

A Pattern Language 01/01/1977

Original Book

Authors:

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

Publisher:

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

“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 ...

References

Scientific Research

Theory of Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Patterns and Pattern Languages

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 ...
The Quality without a Name

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

The Quality Without a Name

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 ...

Correspondence

Pattern Language Research Grant: Regarding the National Institute of Mental Health Grant for the period 1-Jan-1972 to 31-Dec-1973 and the loss of official documents referring to the closing out the Grant; grant forms attached 14/12/1976

Publication, Research Grant

Sender:

Sue Simons, Department of Mental Health, Education and Welfare, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Pattern Language Research Grant: Expression of support for the program's Grant Application 23/05/1977

Publication, Research Grant

Sender:

Ronald V. Dellums, Congress of the United States, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Recipient:

Walter Bogan, Division of Environmental Education, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare , Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Records

Environmental Pattern Language Research Grant: Authorization for Transfer of Grant Funds 03/09/1972

Publication, Research Grant

Authors:

Richard P. Wekefield, Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.

Proposal for budget increase approved under one condition.
Environmental Pattern Language Research Grant: Report on Research Grant Expenditures 09/02/1972

Publication, Research Grant

Authors:

Denny Abrams, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Report by CES on the research grant expenditures from 1-Jan-1971 to 31-Aug-1972 for the project Environmental Pattern Language.
Grant Application for the "Evaluation of the Pattern Language" 29/05/1972

Publication, Research Grant

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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 ...