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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. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building , The Oregon Experiment , and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people

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Author

Christopher Alexander & Sara Ishikawa & Murray Silverstein & Max Jacobson [Alexander, Christopher & Ishikawa, Sara & Silverstein, Murray & Jacobson, Max]

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199726530

Category

art

Subjects

Architecture, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.38 / 5 (3,329 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14