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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Alexander, Christopher. Timeless way of building. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979 (OCoLC)623126890 |
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| Named Person: | Christopher Alexander |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Alexander |
| ISBN: | 0195022483 9780195022483 9780195024029 0195024028 |
| OCLC Number: | 3016520 |
| Description: | xv, 552 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | The timeless way -- The quality without a name -- Being alive -- Patterns of events -- Patterns of space -- Patterns which are alive -- The multiplicity of living patterns -- The quality itself -- The flower and the seed -- Our pattern languages -- Our pattern languages (cont.) -- The creative power of language -- The breakdown of language -- Patterns which can be shared -- The reality of patterns -- The structure of a language -- The evolution of a common language for a town -- The genetic power of language -- Differentiating space -- One pattern at a time -- Shaping one building -- Shaping a group of buildings -- The process of construction -- The process of repair -- The slow emergence of a town -- Its ageless character -- The kernel of the way. |
| Series Title: | Center for Environmental Structure series, V. 1. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher Alexander. |
Abstract:
This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
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