![]() The next 105 concern the siting of buildings and paths and the external and internal design of buildings, and the final 49 lay out structural details within a building. The first 94 of the 253 patterns in A Pattern Language define elements of towns or communities. It is largely as a result of their work, which has provided inspiration for a generation of architects, that I came to write my own book.” “A Pattern Language,” Susanka wrote, “struck me early in my education as the most appropriate way to think about architectural design, buildings, and the people who inhabit them. IN THE BOOK THAT inaugurated her campaign as the champion of the “not so big house” in 1998, Sarah Susanka acknowledged her debt to the architect Christopher Alexander, who, with his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure at UC Berkeley during the sixties and seventies, developed a “new theory of architecture, building and planning.” Their first and most exhaustive explication of that theory, A Pattern Language, was published in 1977. ![]()
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