Alexander, Christopher

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

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ISBN 13:
9780195019193
author:
Alexander, Christopher
format:
HardBack
publisher:
OUP USA
language:
English
Publication Year:
1978
Pages:
1216
Dimensions:
14.48 x 5.08 x 20.07 centimetres
Genre:
City & town planning - architectural aspects
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£62.03

Description

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a comprehensive guide to designing and building environments. It provides a language of patterns that can be used to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a coherent system. At its core, this book offers a radical approach to architecture, building, and planning, one that empowers individuals to design their own houses, streets, and communities. The authors argue that most wonderful places were not created by architects, but by the people who inhabit them. This book is a key part of a trilogy that aims to lay the basis for an entirely new approach to these fields. The book's central idea is that people rely on certain "languages" to articulate their designs, and it provides one such language. It enables individuals to make designs for almost any kind of building or part of the built environment, by answering design problems in a systematic way.

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