A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) (First Edition)

Christopher Alexander; Sara Ishikawa; Murray Silverstein; Max Jacobson; Ingrid Fiksdahl-King; Shlomo Angel

ISBN 10: 0195019199 / ISBN 13: 9780195019193

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1977

About this Item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket, price intact on front flap ($27.50) (sticker shadow on spine). Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Octavo, 1170 pp, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Light crease to front cover (printer s flaw), else a clean, tight, unmarked copy. "A Pattern Language" sets out 253 interrelated design patterns archetypal solutions to recurring architectural and planning problems that together provide a framework for creating functional and humane built environments. Christopher Alexander (1936 2022), a renowned architect and design theorist, authored influential works on design methodology and environmental structure; this volume, written with colleagues Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, is the second book in the Center for Environmental Structure Series and remains his most widely read and cited work.

Seller Inventory # OXFORD-2026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195019199
• ISBN 13: 9780195019193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

The famed architectural handbook filled with insights into designing everything from homes to computer programs

From the Back Cover

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.