Report

A Sublanguage of 70 Patterns for Multi-Service Centers

01/01/1968

Project Report

Submitted to the Hunts Point Neighborhood Corporation, Hunts Point, Bronx, New York.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Bronx Multi-Service Center 1968 to 1973

Hunts Point, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Schematic Design was completed in 1968

Client:

New York City Human Resourses Administaration, Hunts Point Community in the Bronx

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Sanford Hirshen, Sim Van der Ryn

Contractor:

Built by others

Project stages:

Pattern language for the project by C.E.S. Concept design

An early study of the use of pattern language in community designed buildings. The Bronx Multi-Service Center is one of the eight centers included in the book "A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers", and presents a prototype for these ...

References

Scientific Research

Published Books

A Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-Service Centers 01/01/1968

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

Publisher:

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

The first of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, notably the first pattern language for a project. It is presented as a system of generating principles, called a pattern language for multi-service centers. It includes 64 ...