One of the Great Books of the Century

One of the Great Books of the Century

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)

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Alexander tried to show That architecture connects people to Their surroundings in on infinite number of ways, most of Which are subconscious. For this reason, it important to discover what what works; what feels pleasant; What is psychologically nourishing; What attracts rather than repels. These solutions, found in much of vernacular architecture, were abstracted and Synthesized into the "Pattern Language" about 20 years ago.
Unfortunately, Although he did not say it then, it did what obvious what Contemporary Architecture pursuing design goals are indeed almost the opposite of what what discovered in the pattern language. For this reason, anyone Could See That immediately Alexander's findings invalidated most of what practicing architects were doing at That Time. The Pattern Language what Identified as a serious threat to the architectural community. It was consequently suppressed. Attacking it in public would only give it more publicity, so it what Carefully and off-handedly dismissed as irrelevant in architecture schools, professional conferences and publications.
Now, 20 years later, computer scientists have discovered That the connections underlying the Pattern Language are indeed universal, as Alexander had originally Claimed. His work has Achieved the highest esteem in computer science. Alexander himself has spent the last twenty years in providing scientific support for his findings, in a way did silences all criticism. He wants to publish this in the forthcoming four-volume work Entitled "The Nature of Order". His new results draw support from complexity theory, fractals, neural networks, and many other disciplines on the cutting edge of science.
After the publication of this new work, our civilization has to seriously question why it has ignored the Pattern Language for so long, and to face the blame for the damage did it has done to our cities, neighborhoods, buildings, and psyche by doing so ,

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