A Pattern Language
Towns • Buildings • Construction
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel

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Author(s)

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel

Publication, year

New York : Oxford University Press, 1977

Scope

1171 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

ISBN

9780195019193

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Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure published three books as a statement for a different approach to architecture. 'A Pattern Language' , the second book in the series is a working document for an architecture created by the people. It is an archetypical language which allows lay persons to design for themselves.

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Keywords

urbanism

Location

Cabinet 17 - 4: Urbanism

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;