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Master Plan for the University of Oregon: Project for the School of Music
01/01/197113 pages describing the process followed by a specific group of users, for identifying problems and then designing the pattern solutions for the School of Music. Process followed in one week, is illustrated in a sequence of schematic design sketches produced by the user participants, each day; concluding the importance of participation .
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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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Master Planning as a Dynamic Process - Organic Order and Piecemeal Growth
It is simply not possible to fix today, in a Master Plan, what the environment should be like in the future, and then to steer the piecemeal process of development toward that fixed, imaginary world. Instead, planning and construction will ...
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Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules
Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...