Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 3

15-page lecture transcript, delivered on October 6, 1967. It starts with the question of how ‘environmental structures’ come to being and how they are maintained. It further continues with what are the processes which generate spatial relational structures –or otherwise patterns, and disscusses the purely functional approach, the approach based on rules and cultural regulations, and the approach based on pictures in people’s heads, providing examples for each case. It concludes with the idea that the environment is generated by a language of patterns.