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  • Wealth of positive design concepts  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    Do take the time to peruse all reader reviews. This is a valuable book. It is a bit enormous, though, and there is no index. This Means That if the reader has to hunt for some little reference or fact, he or she is in for a long trek through Diese Se
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  • Not Architecture ... Computer Science!  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    :) I can not believe noone has Mentioned That this book what the inspiration for the latest fashion in computer science: "Patterns" The idea is to look at what kind of solutions work, and then when you finish have a problem to solve, you Think w
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  • This is a book about architecture ...!  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    In California, mall developers finally used a different floorplan. They built on outside mall with a porch-like cafe, looking out over a meandering shopping area below. A reporter interviewed a dozen people, all of Whom Said They found Themselves spe
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  • it is not about architecture  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    Nominally about architecture and urban planning, this book has more wisdom about psychology, anthropology, and sociology than any other fact I've read. Nearly every one of this volume's 1170 pages will make you question at Assumption That You probabl
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  • Inspiring & Exciting  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    I was so excited when i stumbled across this book in 1986-87. The first house I owned has two rooms with lights from two walls and a third room with one window. It's so true, we almost never go to That room, even though it has a very large window tha
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  • Required reading for designers, planners and architects  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    Part 2 of 3 part series. This book is the dictionary for A Timeless Way of Building. The Oregon experiment is a case study of the use of thesis ideas to plan a college campus. This book is about Functional Design for humans rather than design for des
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  • One of the Great Books of the Century  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    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 nou
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  • A classic, rich source of ideas on building human habitats.  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    In an effort to build a philosophy of the human use of space, Berkeley professor of Architecture Alexander and his colleagues managed to set down so many of the big ideas of the 1960's in this magisterial book-- proclaiming in Their careful observati
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  • methodical view of social utopia through architecture  

    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) (Hardcover)
    A Pattern Language presents a compelling case for the influence of space, buildings, landscape and on human endeavors. We Often Overlook this force, accustomed as we are to accommodating spatial limitations and design flaws. But try entering any room
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