Fall 1967 Environmental Design 190: Transcript of lecture 6
13/10/1967Discusses the two possible attitudes to create and reintroduce organic unity and functional adequacy in the environment in a currently defective pattern: One that patterns are archaic and specific to the culture within which they are used, and the notion of patterns needs to be scraped, and the other attitude is the reintroduction of a pattern language and actually make it work. Examples are given.
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A Pattern Language
01/01/1977
“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 ...
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The Timeless Way of Building
01/01/1979
“The Timeless Way of Building” is the opening work in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. Here Alexander introduces the ideas behind the succeeding books. The book lays the foundation of the series. It ...