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A Pattern Language. Towns, Buildings, Construction | Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel | 9780195019193

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A Pattern Language

Towns, Buildings, Construction

Author:Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Publisher:Oxford University Press

ISBN: 978-0-1950-1919-3

  • Hardcover
  • English
  • 1170 Pages

'A Pattern Language. Towns, Buildings, Construction' is the second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning,"

The book offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own.

Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.

'A Pattern Language. Towns, Buildings, Construction' is the second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning,"

The book offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own.

Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.

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