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Author
Series
Center for Environmental Structure volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Center for Environmental Structure volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Two hundred and fifty-three archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design
Author
Publisher
The Center for Environmental Structure
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The foundations of modern scientific thought, four centuries old, are firmly rooted in a conception that the universe is a machinelike entity, a play of baubles, machines, trinkets. To this day, our real daily experience of ourselves has no clear place in science. It is little wonder that a machinelike world-view has supported the deadly architecture of the last century.
This mechanistic thinking and the consequent investment-oriented tracts...
This mechanistic thinking and the consequent investment-oriented tracts...
Author
Publisher
The Center for Environmental Structure
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Scientifically, this is perhaps the most exciting of the four books. How do beautiful creations come into being? Nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, each one beautiful. The same is true for daffodils, streams, and stars. But man-made creations – especially the towns and buildings of the 20th century – have only occasionally been really good, more often mediocre, and in the last 50 years have most...
Author
Publisher
The Center for Environmental Structure
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From a practical point of view, this is the most compelling of the four books. Hundreds of photographs and plans of new buildings that have living structure, and the processes which gave them life, demonstrate, for the first time, what the concept of living structure can mean in buildings of our time and of the future.
The really good building. The really good space. Places that reach an archetypal level of human experience, reaching across centuries,...
The really good building. The really good space. Places that reach an archetypal level of human experience, reaching across centuries,...
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