A Progress Report on the Pattern Language
07/07/196837-page final draft of a paper prepared after a seminar by Christopher Alexander in 1967-68. Prepared as an attempt to explain simply what is meant by “patterns” and “pattern language”. Paper was published in 1970 as an article.
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Theory of 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 ...
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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 ...