A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (41 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Boards have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear. Mylar-covered dust jacket has light wear and some fading along spine.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 1171 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 inthe 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 bythe 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 andcommunicate 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?). Morethan 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 theirintroduction, 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. In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover is in good condition, save for corner bumping/wear (including spine), rubbing, and white soil spot at lower edge of front cover. DJ is unclipped and presents with many previous attempts at repair (tape), edge/corner wear/chipping, and dark soiling on upper edge of back cover. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, save for some red soiling to side textblock and very minimal margin notations. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B9.

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. First edition. 34th printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket spine very slightly sun-faded. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Octavo, 1170 pp, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. 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.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 1171 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Dust jacket has tears to edges, pieces missing from the edges, in a protective cover, $27.50 on the front flap.1977 date on title page and copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear along edges. corners are lightly bumped. back cover has light surface creases. former owner's name stamp on front free end paper. dust jacket has light chipping, some toning, handling wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 1171 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -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. 1216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -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. 1216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). This copy is in good condition. The jacket has light rubbing and egdewear with a moderate sized chip and tear at the foot of the spine. Upper text edge has very light foxing. The front pages of this copy have waves where the press was uneven while binding. Text is free of markings and binding is secure. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 inthe 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 bythe 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 andcommunicate 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?). Morethan 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 theirintroduction, 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. In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 inthe 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 bythe 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 andcommunicate 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?). Morethan 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 theirintroduction, 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. In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.Two hundred and fifty-three archetypal patterns consisting of p.