An Experimental Investigation of the Effectiveness of the Pattern Language as a Design Teaching Tool – Initial Trial with Architecture Students

10/12/1970

Research Paper

Pilot study conducted in a studio design course at the Architecture Department of U.C.B. Thirteen students spent one month testing and evaluating the pattern language, using and implementing it as a design tool for their studio assignments.

Authors:

Max Jacobson, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Advisor in the Ph.D. Program in Architecture 1975

University Program:

Ph.D. in Architecture

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Max Jacobson

Heading the committee for the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination and chairing the committee for approving the Doctoral Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture.

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 ...