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008			771006s1977 nyua 000 0 eng
020			_a9780195019193 (hbk.)
040			_aBLR _erda
082	0	0	_a720.1 ALE _223 _b001003
100	1	0	_aAlexander, Christopher.
245	1	2	_aA pattern language : _btowns, buildings, construction / _cChristopher Alexander..[et.al]
246	1	3	_aPattern language : _btowns, buildings, construction /
264			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1977.
300			_axliv, 1171 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440	1		_aCenter for Environmental Structure series ; _nv. 2.
500			_aCompanion volume to The timeless way of building and The Oregon experiment.
520			_a"At the core of the book is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain 'languages', which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal 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?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of a the problem with an illustration, sand a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patters are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seems likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today" -- BOOK JACKET
650		0	_aSymbolism in architecture.
650		0	_aSemiotics.
700	1	0	_aIshikawa, Sara.
700	1	0	_aSilverstein, Murray.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://openisbn.com/isbn/0195019199/
942			_2ddc _cBK
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