Here's your correction, William - a gallery of real built spaces on
Alexander's principals, from his website: http://www.patternlanguage.com/picturegallery/picturegallery.htm
He was a real working architect with college campuses, numerous public
buildings and private residences to his credit.
Wikipedia says he's built 200 buildings, but being Wikipedia, who
knows if that's accurate. Also, a friend of a friend has an Alexander
house - purportedly, he was difficult to work with.
For what it's worth.
:-)
On Jul 22, 2009, at 9:06 AM, William Hudson wrote:
Christopher Alexander was an architect that wrote the book that
gives us
the term 'design pattern'. However, his interest was towns and
buildings, so I don't recommend that you rush out and buy it. Not only
is it big and expensive, but ironically, nothing has ever been built
based on his principals (although I am happy to stand corrected on
this
if someone knows better).
Joan Vermette
email: [email protected]
primary phone: 617-495-0184
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