A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
"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...
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"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. This classic handbook presents a language which ordinary people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780195019193 (0195019199)
ASIN: 195019199
Publish date: January 1st 1977
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 1171
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Reference,
Games,
Geography,
Philosophy,
Design,
Architecture,
Game Design,
Cities,
Urban Planning,
Urbanism,
Urban Studies
Another of my required reading books for architecture. Alexander provides a way for people to talk about architecture, not just to draft it. It's important.
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