University of Missouri Kansas City: Comprehensive Plan – Proposed Policies for Physical Development

10/04/1983

Project Report

151-page latest version, revised on 10-Apr-1983, of the 55 policies or patterns, intended to guide all future physical development at the University of Missouri Kansas City.

Authors:

Howard Davis, Susanne Siepl, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Content of

Project

Comprehensive Master Plan for the University of Missouri 1981 to 1982

Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.

Master Planning, Educational, Designed , Completed in Aug-1982

Client:

University of Missouri - George Russell, Chancellor

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Susanne Siepl

Project stages:

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

The University of Missouri master plan, for the use of the Chancellor’s office, was based of a project specific pattern language. It included 55 patterns –called policies in this case– for buildings and open spaces, and 36 additional patterns for ...

References

Scientific Research

Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...

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 ...

Correspondence

University of Missouri: Refers to the transmittal of a copy of the final reports, together with a sketch of the B&PA building 25/04/1984

Project, Design Matters, Transmittal

Sender:

Ralph H. Ochsner, Ochsner - Hare & Hare Planning Consultants, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.

Recipient:

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

Medium:

Letter

Manuscripts

Drawings

University of Missouri: Sketch of UMKC Campus 01/01/1981

Architectural Design, Project, Sketches

Designers:

Howard Davis, Sussane Siepl, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Partial sketch of buildings 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 83 and the Swinney Intramural fields, based on campus map .

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