A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Hardcover)

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

  • 出版商: Oxford University
  • 售價: $2,230
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,119
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 1171
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0195019199
  • ISBN-13: 9780195019193
  • 相關分類: Design Pattern
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商品描述

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.

After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books 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, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language.

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 of 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.

At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment.

"Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

你可以使用這本書來為自己和家人設計一座房子;你可以與鄰居合作,改善你的城鎮和社區;你可以用它來設計辦公室、工作坊或公共建築物。你還可以用它來指導你在實際建造過程中的工作。

在經過十年的沉默後,克里斯托弗·亞歷山大和他在環境結構中心的同事們現在以三本書的形式發表了一份重要聲明,他們的話是:“為建築、建造和規劃開創一種全新的方法,我們希望這種方法能完全取代現有的觀念和實踐。”這三本書分別是《建造的永恆方式》、《俄勒岡實驗》和這本書《一種模式語言》。

這些書的核心思想是,人們應該為自己設計自己的房子、街道和社區。這個想法可能是激進的(它意味著對建築專業的激進轉變),但它只是從這樣一個觀察出發:世界上大部分美好的地方不是由建築師創造的,而是由人民創造的。

這些書的核心也是這樣一個觀點:在設計環境時,人們總是依賴某些“語言”,這些語言就像我們說的語言一樣,使他們能夠在一個結構系統內表達和傳達無窮多的設計。這本書提供了這樣一種語言。它將使一個人能夠為幾乎任何類型的建築物或建築環境的任何部分進行設計。

這種語言的“模式”是對設計問題的回答(窗台應該有多高?建築物應該有多少層樓?社區應該有多少空間用於草地和樹木?)。這本模式語言中有超過250個模式:每個模式都包括一個問題陳述、對問題的討論和解決方案的插圖。正如作者在引言中所說,許多模式都是原型的,它們在事物的本質中根深蒂固,因此很可能在五百年後,它們仍然是人類本性和行為的一部分,就像今天一樣。