Record

Seminar of the Center for Environmental Structure: Alexander’s typewritten notes on the structure of a pattern; seven questions with respective responses

01/01/1967

Research Notes

Draft aimed at answering seven questions, to be taken as a basis for discussion on patterns during the seminar.

Authors:

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

Content of

Public Event

Research Seminar by The Center for Environmental Structure, an independent non- profit organization, incorporated in late March 1967, and set up to create an environmental pattern language 01/07/1967 to 30/09/1967

Inverness, CA, U.S.A.

Seminar, Academic Event

Organized by:

Center for Environmental Structure - Christopher Alexander

Research Seminar on the question of the structure and formulation of a pattern and a pattern language, and the process and activities required for their development. The basic concepts introduced were those of “an environmental pattern” and of “an environmetal ...

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 ...

Published Books

A Pattern Language 01/01/1977

Publication, 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 ...