The Oregon Experiment: 3 (Center for Environmental Structure Series) - Hardcover

Alexander, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195018249 ISBN 13: 9780195018240

Publisher: OUP USA, 1978

Synopsis

A book that brilliantly applies the insight of A Pattern Language to a real-world project

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive. Acting on his deeply-held conviction that, as a society, we must recover the means by which we can build and maintain healthy living environments, he has lived and worked in many cultures, and built buildings all over the world. Making neighborhoods, building-complexes, building, balustrades, columns, ceilings, windows, tiles, ornaments, models and mockups, paintings, furniture, castings and carvings--all this has been his passion, and is the cornerstone from which his paradigm-changing principles have been derived.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195018249
• ISBN 13: 9780195018240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 202