Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 10

23/10/1967
Lecture Course, Lecture Transcript

Discussion begins with pattern descriptions and the need to fulfill the five conditions required for the validity of a pattern. Three conditions are concerned with empirical validity and two are concerned with usefulness, as elements of a language. Several examples of how to prove out these conditions as necessities are given.

Authors:
Christopher Alexander, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.