A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction: 2 (Center for Environmental Structure Series) - Hardcover
Book 8 of 8: Center for Environmental Structure
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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: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oxford University Press, Published 1977. Hardcover, xliv, 1171 pp.; 21 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, plans, diagrams, and sketches throughout. Volume 2 of the Center for Environmental Structure Series (companion to The Timeless Way of Building and The Oregon Experiment). In very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Maroon cloth-covered boards lettered in gilt on the front board ("A PATTERN LANGUAGE") above a gilt Center for Environmental Structure emblem (figures grouped around a building), with matching gilt lettering and emblem on the spine. Mild surface wear to the boards. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked. Cream dust jacket with a red rule border and dark navy lettering, the red Center for Environmental Structure emblem centered on the front panel, with the back panel given over to publisher's series notes and three blurbs (one for each volume); a few small nicks and light creasing along the edges, with fading to the paper over the spine. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.[From dust jacket] 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 in the 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, The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language, are described on the back cover. 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 by the 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 and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal 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?). More than 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 their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seems likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.Contents: Using This Book (A Pattern Language; Summary of the Language; Choosing a Language for Your Project; The Poetry of the Language); Towns; Buildings; Construction; Acknowledgments. Seller Inventory # 20260509017
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A Pattern Language
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