Environmental Pattern Language Research Grant: Notice of Grant Awarded

01/01/1973

Research Grant

Form PHS-1533. Official File Copy of the approved budget for Personnel and Direct and Indirect costs in accordance with the Applicable Cost-Sharing Agreement, for the Environmental Pattern Language project from 1-Jan-73 to 31-Dec-73.

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