Alexander’s Pattern Language and the Aesthetic Experience of the Human Brain

01/09/1983

Student Work, Essays

Student paper described by its author as an endeavor to interpret Alexander’s pattern language in the light of recent neuroscientific studies about the nature of human consciousness. Intending to illustrate the conflict between Alexander’s search for a new paradigm and the current body of the knowledge and practice in architecture .

Authors:

Osama A. Elsawahli, University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Urban Design of the , Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.

References

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.

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