The Timeless Way of Building
Series: Center for Environmental Structure
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780195024029
Copyright date: 1979
Description: This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
Table of contents: title: The timeless way; label: 1
title: The timeless way
pagenum: 3; title: THE QUALITY; label: 2
title: The quality without a name
pagenum: 19; label: 3
title: Being alive
pagenum: 41; label: 4
title: Patterns of events
pagenum: 55; label: 5
title: Patterns of space
pagenum: 75; label: 6
title: Patterns which are alive
pagenum: 101; label: 7
title: The multiplicity of living patterns
pagenum: 123; label: 8
title: The quality itself
pagenum: 137; title: THE GATE; label: 9
title: The flower and the seed
pagenum: 157; label: 10
title: Our pattern languages
pagenum: 167; label: 11
title: Our pattern languages (cont.)
pagenum: 193; label: 12
title: The creative power of language
pagenum: 211; label: 13
title: The breakdown of language
pagenum: 225; label: 14
title: Patterns which can be shared
pagenum: 243; label: 15
title: The reality of patterns
pagenum: 277; label: 16
title: The structure of a language
pagenum: 305; label: 17
title: The evolution of a common language for a town
pagenum: 325; title: THE WAY; label: 18
title: The genetic power of language
pagenum: 351; label: 19
title: Differentiating space
pagenum: 365; label: 20
title: One pattern at a time
pagenum: 385; label: 21
title: Shaping one building
pagenum: 403; label: 22
title: Shaping a group of buildings
pagenum: 427; label: 23
title: The process of construction
pagenum: 455; label: 24
title: The process of repair
pagenum: 475; label: 25
title: The slow emergence of a town
pagenum: 493; label: 26
title: Its ageless character
pagenum: 511; title: The kernel of the way; label: 27
title: The kernel of the way
pagenum: 531