After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, we hope, replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for ...
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After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, we hope, replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation fo the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. This book is the master plan for the University of Oregon, and is now being implemented at that university; but it shows at the same time how any community the size of a university or small town might go about designing its own future environment-with all members of the community participating personally. It is a concrete example at the Center's theories in practice, showing in simple detail, with numerous illustrations, how to implement six guiding principles: organic order, participation, piecemeal growth, patterns, diagnosis, and coordination.
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Good. 1979, second printing. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges. Very clean, very nice example. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped.
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Good- Good-Dust Jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Oxford University Press, 1975. 1st printing of 1st edition (true first edition). No further printings listed, same date on copyright page and title page, and price of $12.50 on inner flap of dust jacket. Hardcover book with dust jacket in good-condition. Faint bowing to boards. Boards also have fingerprints on them. Edges of text block have foxing. Bottom outer corner has dime-sized water stain on boards and pages. Binding is tight and sturdy, text and illustrations unmarked. Dust jacket (designed by Sigrid Spaeth) has general sunning edges and spine have age-toning/light soil. From a personal collection. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Oxford University, 1996, 8th printing, 190 pages, hardcover in a very good unclipped jacket, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Illustrated. Price-clipped DJ. Light foxing to top page edge. DJ spine darkened. Clean and unmarked.
