A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Author/Contributor(s):	Alexander, Christopher
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/25/1977
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Volume 1, The Timeless Way of Building, lays the foundation of the series. It presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which forms the bsis for a new traditional post-industrial architecture, created by the people.

Read it for inspiration; as a practicing planner, an educator, or a student, you cannot help but be challenged and stimulated by this book.--Dennis Michael Ryan, Journal of the American Planning Association

Volume 2, A Pattern Language, is a working document for such an architecture. It is an archetypal language which allows lay persons to design for themselves.

I believe this to be perhaps the most important book on architectural design published this century. Every library, every school, every environmental action group, every architect, and every first-year student should have a copy.--Tony Ward, Architectural Design

Volume 3, The Oregon Experiment, shows how this theory may be implemented, describing a new planning process f