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The Timeless Way of Building

by: Christopher Alexander

New York: Oxford University Press (1979) .

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URL:	http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/citeulike04-21

This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment. Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books.

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  abstract = {This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment). Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books.},
  added-at = {2006-06-05T03:03:45.000+0200},
  address = {New York},
  author = {Alexander, Christopher},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25f07db945cc2c9a454a21125c11a2aa0/yish},
  citeulike-article-id = {411189},
  comment = {In his book The Timeless Way of Building (Alexander79 p.247), he defines patterns as:

Each pattern is a three-part rule, which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution.

As an element in the world, each pattern is a relationship between

a certain context, a certain system of forces which occurs

repeatedly in that context, and a certain spatial configuration which allows these forces to resolve themselves.

As an element of language, a pattern is an instruction, which shows how this spatial configuration can be used, over and over again, to resolve the given system of forces, wherever the context makes it relevant.

The pattern is, in short, at the same time a thing, which happens in the world, and the rule which tells us how to create that thing, and when we must create it. It is both a process and a thing; both a description of a thing which is alive, and a description of the process which will generate that thing."},
  howpublished = {Hardcover},
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  intrahash = {5f07db945cc2c9a454a21125c11a2aa0},
  isbn = {0195024028},
  keywords = {CnE07 alexander architecture cerme6 christopher design designapproaches eLPBookMor mathgamespatterns mythesis nature order patterns theory},
  priority = {2},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  timestamp = {2006-06-05T03:03:45.000+0200},
  title = {The Timeless Way of Building},
  url = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/citeulike04-21},
  year = 1979
}

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