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

Christopher Alexander; Sara Ishikawa; Murray Silverstein; Max Jacobson; Ingrid Fiksdahl-King; Shlomo Angel

ISBN 10: 0195019199 ISBN 13: 9780195019193

Editorial: Oxford University Press, New York, 1977

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket, price intact on front flap ($27.50) (sticker shadow on spine). Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Octavo, 1170 pp, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Light crease to front cover (printer s flaw), else a clean, tight, unmarked copy. "A Pattern Language" sets out 253 interrelated design patterns archetypal solutions to recurring architectural and planning problems that together provide a framework for creating functional and humane built environments. Christopher Alexander (1936 2022), a renowned architect and design theorist, authored influential works on design methodology and environmental structure; this volume, written with colleagues Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, is the second book in the Center for Environmental Structure Series and remains his most widely read and cited work.

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T�tulo

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

Editor

Oxford University Press, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

1977

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0195019199

ISBN 13

9780195019193

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

Estado

Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Near Fine

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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 always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teor�a y cr�tica del dise�o y han escrito m�s de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en �xitos de ventas. Tambi�n han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Dise�o del siglo XX, El dise�o industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Dise�o del siglo XXI.

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