A Pattern Language
Categories: Engineering & Transportation
A Pattern Language gives ordinary people, not just architects, a way to shape the places they live and work: to design a house with their family, improve a town or neighborhood with their neighbors, or plan an office, workshop, or public building. Christopher Alexander and his colleagues set out 253 "patterns", each describing a recurring problem and a solution, at every scale from regions down to rooms. It is one of three companion books, with The Timeless Way of Building and The Oregon Experiment.