A Pattern Language
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture. It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel. Twenty five years after its publication, it is still one of the best-selling books on architecure.[1]
The book is a substantive, illustrated discussion of a pattern language derived from traditional architecture, with about 250 unitary patterns such as Main Gateways given a treatment over several pages.
A summary of the patterns in the book is available online.
The three books in the series are:
- The Timeless Way of Building (volume 1)
- A Pattern Language (volume 2)
- The Oregon Experiment (volume 3)
