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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction: 2 (Center for Environmental Structure Series) - Hardcover
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The famed architectural handbook filled with insights into designing everything from homes to computer programs
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.
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A Pattern Language (Hardcover)
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement inthe form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely."The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but bythe people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate andcommunicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). Morethan 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in theirintroduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today. In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780195019193
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Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 5th or later Edition. NYC: Oxford, 1977. 29 printing, NF/VG+. Book has some wear to spine ends, former owner gift inscription from a contractor to his client. DJ has color fade to spine, some surface rubbing, light edge wear. Standard work every architect should own and learn. Profusely illustrated with many examples. This is volume two in a three volume set. V. 1: The Timeless Way of Building V.3: The Oregon Experiment. Nice copy, 1,171 pp. BP. Seller Inventory # 008274
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