Pattern Language Generates Multi Service Centers by Christopher Alexander Ishikawa Murray Silverstein (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: FINE. First Edition. [4], 283pp. 8x11' perfectbound in glossy printed wraps. Light dampstain to fore head corner clean and sound otherwise. With cover letter 'Note on the Title' d. 1971. We presume this to be the first printing since the notice is not bound in with the book. A self-published manifesto by the Center for Environmental Structure at University of California, Berkeley. It would go on to be published in revised form by Oxford University Press as the first of eight volumes in a 'Center for Environmental Structure' series. It has been continuously in print with the publisher and remains a perennial best-seller among architecture books. In addition to generating a movement in human-use architectural design, *A Pattern Language* was a groundbreaking theoretical work in information linguistics, with the concept of 'Pattern Languages' credited as a major influence in Ward Cunningham's 'WikiWikiWeb,' in addition to wide influence in computer software engineering.