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This page lists the articles, features, and tools you'll find on the
Pattern Language website. Some items are listed twice
because they fall into more than one category.
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Welcome! Short introductions for different types of first-time Users
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Introduction to the Pattern Language website
What is a pattern language? A pattern language is a system of patterns or solutions which make buildings, room, gardens, and neighborhoods work well for us. Lay people and architects can use patterns to design better buildings which are uniquely suited to their own needs.
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Join the Pattern Language CommunityThrough this website and our tools, we want to stimulate a world-wide effort to bring to life our built environment.
What is the Pattern Language community?.
A personal letter from Chris Alexander
Community bulletin board.
Online discussion among members. (Under construction.)
Morning Coffee: Christopher Alexander's
online column
Genome Project. Join us in creating and improving sequences.
About the company Patternlanguage.com, Inc.
The Builder's Network and Membership in the Builder's Network A network of people working with these concepts. What the network does for you if you are a builder.
Access to the Builders in the Builder's Network What the network does for you if you are a person who needs help, or needs a builder familiar with these ways of working.
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Membership and Sponsorship
Joining the
Pattern Language community. Become a member and gain access to the tools on the site.
Our Sponsors Who they are, and our thanks to them
Sponsor Us! Please help us by making a contribution, as a sponsor, to the work of developing this website and its worldwide effort
Special! Read why one of our sponsors chose to fund us. See what she says.
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Professionals in the Community
Help for architects & builders.
Tools to help architects and builders make better buildings.
Tools and services for professional
architects and builders. Contracts, connections, design tools, project management.
The Builder's Network and Membership in the Builder's Network A network of people working with these concepts. What the network does for you if you are a builder.
Special! Professionals speak their minds! See what they say.
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Links
Links to other sites of interest, where you will find related material, and efforts by others who are trying to do similar things in the world.
The Portland Trust
An ecological pattern language
Sarah Susanka
An architect dedicated to making houses that work for people
Urban Marketing
A planner/economist dedicated to revitalizing cities
Urban Lexicon and Pattern Books
Andreas Duany's nationwide work on urban form and the patterns needed to create it
anamorph.com
A pattern language for websites maintained by software engineers.
The WIKI site A beautiful example of how to organize free interchange of ideas among computer scientists. Visit it, the philosophy of open discourse is inspiring!
Doug Lea Christopher Alexander:
An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
Additional Links to Sites We Recommend
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Our Services
Telephone and Online Services for Users Ways we can help answer your Questions, or provide support for the use of our tools.
Design your own House. Low budget help: With no more than a few hours of paid time, we can work with you, using the tools on this site, to lay out your own house for yourself.
Low budget help: With no more than a few hours of paid time, we can work with you, using the tools on this site, to lay out your own house for yourself.
Full services for Designing and Building Your House We provide this service anywhere in the USA. If you are interested we may be able to provide the same service in certain other countries.
Design and Management of Large Buildings Please look at examples of our work.
Full Scale Architectural Services for Large Projects The full range of professional services we offer.
Special! Look at the model of our latest large project in Athens, Greece where a client who loves the Italian marble floors in early Christian churches wants a high tech modern equivalent. The Music Center, Athens, Greece
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Do-It-Yourself Tools
We aim to help people help themselves. In this section we offer tools to help individuals, families, organizations and communities design their own structures and spaces. Eventually we plan to provide a comprehensive tool kit, costing, drawing, building, managing, finishing, maintaining and improving.Given the high cost of of creating these tools, some are available to members only.
How to join.
User Design. How it works.
How different users can get different kinds of help from our tools.
Language builder.
Obtaining generative sequences from A Pattern Language for almost any building project. Get sequences for any project,
as a sequence of patterns.Coming Soon
House Design sequence. Design your own small house.
Office and workplaces. Lay out your office so it really works for you. Under construction
Think about Your Work.
Think about your work space; a preamble to laying out the work place in detail. Partially available, part still under construction
Alphabetical list of available generative sequences The key to creating buildings with "life" is using sequences that follow a series of steps. Coming soon are Family home, Apartment Building, Gardens.
House toolsuite. Cost your own house, draw it, build it, manage it, finish it, maintain it, and make it better.
"The House Game".
A game that shows you how to build a house like a prince for fifty thousand dollars.Coming soon.
Making neighborhood greens. Tools to help people design
common space together, in their own neighborhood.
Project management.
How to make your project feasible.
Access to builders. Getting your projects built by local builders where you live.
Demo of design tool. An entrance transition is the area betwen the street and the front door. When it is made well, it makes a transition from public to private, and the outdoor space allows you to be comfortable. Watch a site visitor designing a house entrance. A sequence in action.
Free Demo!Try Designing a House Entrance
Yourself. A simple process you can try yourself to
get the idea of how a sequence works.
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Photographic Illustrations of Beautiful Places that We and Others Have BuiltA picture is worth more than a thousand words - you need to know what it looks like.
Picture Gallery. Illustrating some places with life including pictures of many places we have built with users. By category.
Work of many architects throughout the world. Examples of ways other architects have begun to realize life in buildings.
Watch designs unfolding. Samples of process (under construction).
Italian floors.
Examples of medieval floors from Italian churches.
Demo of design tool. Watch a site visitor designing a house entrance. A sequence in action.
Try Designing a House Entrance
Yourself. A simple process you can use to
get the idea of how a sequence works.
Favorites! Most frequently visited illustrations are the Picture Gallery of Homes built with the families and The San Francisco Bay Bridge - a proposal for a new San Francisco Bay Bridge
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The Theory Underpinning Our WorkAll design and art and building depend on unfolding: the process by which form arises. Learn more about how and why this process works.
A Generative Theory of Architecture Overview.
The theory of generative sequences Basic explanation of the idea of sequences and the way they work.
Origin of generative theory in Pattern Language Review of the connection between the two theories.
40,000 sequences to generate a Living World The genome project for the environment
The "Genome Project" for a living world.
Our constantly evolving material. Explanation.
"To Be Alive".
What does it mean to live? Experiments you can do to find out
how your surroundings help you to be free.
"Spirit".
Straightforward advice can help you put spirit in your buildings.
"The Shift of Paradigm".
Describes how we think holistically about the world of buildings.
The Nature of Order . Information on the Forthcoming four volume magnum opus.
Special! Weekly serialization of Christopher Alexander's four-volume magnum opus. In progress. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Bookstore
Online bookstore Find descriptions of all books and purchase on-line books and selected papers and articles.
The Nature of Order finally becoming available.View the table of contents of the four volumes that captures 25 years of work.Discount for advance orders.
Order copies from our Archive of unpublished papers and books. Books, manuscripts, papers,plans, reports on individual projects, by Christopher Alexander and his associates, many never published, a few that were published but very hard to find.
Bookclub. A selection of reviews and recommendations
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Articles, Reports, and Commentaries
Archive of unpublished papers and books. The most complete source of writings, manuscripts, papers, reports on individual projects,plans by Christopher Alexander and his associates at the Center for Environmental Structure. Many never published, a few that were published but very hard to find.
Visual Archive.
Photographs, and never-seen paintings are being made available from the CES and Alexander archives.
A Pattern Language.
Look at the book and use its hyperlinks online. You can also buy it in the bookstore
Special! Poets have things to say. See recent work on poetic criticism by Richard Gabriel.
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In the News - Radio, TV, Press Reports
Published Commentary about this website.
From Fortune, Wired, The New York Times, San Francisco Examiner, and other sources.
Taped interviews by National Radio Program, BBC, and others.
Special! See on-line video tape of latest lecture by Christopher Alexander at Stanford University
Abstract
Streaming video (high-speed internet connection needed)
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The City and the World
Indian Cities. Housing for everyone:
Where high-density housing is necessary,
people can create living places by using this design process.
Different economies & Third World. For groups around the world rich in spirit but limited
in pocketbook. How we contribute to the efforts people make in different
countries to help themselves control their surroundings.
Planning processes for cities and counties. Planning processes for larger-scale communities.
Neighborhood greens. Tools to help people design common space in their own neighborhoods.
City center and Downtown. Developing tools for rebuilding downtowns.
Nature and the city. Is a profound integration of the two possible? We believe it is.
Special! Is community planning the last of our civil rights issues?
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