The team of people creating PatternLanguage.com have spent decades of work directed at understanding what makes for good and bad buildings, buildings that have life in them and provide the supportive surroundings we need. We have spent decades developing building processes appropriate to our times that will lead to good buildings with strong user participation and sensible spending. We know that there are viable alternatives to strip malls, tract housing and absurdly inappropriate and alienating buildings and we know how to build them.
Now web technology, like Guttenberg's printing press, radically changes the availability of these alternate ways of building. We have formed PatternLanguage.com as an internet corporation, and as an outgrowth of thirty years of work at done at THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE.
The web site is dedicated to reaching people of all walks of life who share
our concern. In small ways (the design of a garden, the refurbishing of an
attic into an extra room), or in larger ways(the revamping of a
neighborhood, planning for a new office building), we all play our part in
shaping our environment, which in turn shapes us.
On the pages of this web site you will find the tools: patterns, sequences, building processes, project management information, to do these things. We address both the lay person and the professional architect and builder who have different but largely overlapping needs and who must work together.
Please explore the web site and visit us often. We are constantly adding new material. The website can:
- Support you in designing whatever you wish (house, garden, or wall) that fits your needs and your site
- Support you as a member of a group in collective design and large projects
- Help you as either the client or the professional architect/ builder to truly communicate
- Show you the actual processes for successful implementation
- Connect you to people and services you need
- Offer a wealth of published and unpublished background information
You in turn can join and help us build a community of people around the world devoted to reshaping the earth. Many of the pages on this web site are accessible free, to any user who logs on. Some require a modest fee. Please explore and enjoy the site.
