A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com 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," A Pattern Language 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. Book Description "Brilliant....Here's how to design or redesign any space you're living or working in--from metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically conservative observations will spark, enhance, organize your best ideas, and a wondrous home, workplace, town will result"--San Francisco Chronicle. A handbook designed for the layman which aims to present a language which people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.
A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series),Christopher Alexander,Oxford University Press, USA,0195019199,Architecture,City planning,Criticism,Design & Drafting,Planning,Semiotics,Symbolism in architecture,Architecture / Design & Drafting,Art & Architecture | Theory & Criticism; Aesthetics,City & town planning - architectural aspects
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