Pattern Language

Concepts

A Pattern Language is understood as " an organized and coherent set of patterns, each of which describes a problem and the core of a solution that can be used in many ways within a specific field of expertise." Source .

"The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander and popularized by his 1977 book A Pattern Language." Source

See Also

Pattern Language Patterns Language, Maxims and Symbols in Social Systems Pattern Languages for Sustainable Development

By Marc Pierson

A pattern is a recipe for producing a good result. A Pattern Language is a recipe for creating a system. If the recipe guides the production a culinary dish, the pattern language guides the production of a meal.

Patterns link to one another to form pathways toward wholeness and completeness of each neighborhoods way of living.

Considering the design approach expressed in patterns and pattern languages, we recognize that patterns and their languages can enable or disable patterns at higher or lower system levels.

See Pattern Language Template To use this template you can simply drag the text to a page or you can select it from the list whenever you create a new page.

Speaking from Systems Science, we recognize that working with patterns and pattern languages as a design approach can absorb higher and lower systems levels' variety. Taking a recursive perspective is already a pattern on its own. There is no vaild reason to not considering higher order systems beyond buildings and towns. I believe that Christopher Alexander has shown to also support this way and has done significant work on it in his later work.

People cannot stay healthy in sick buildings or cities. Cities and neighborhoods cannot survive and cannot be sustainable in unsustainable countries or in an unsustainable planet. This is a consequence of thinking in patterns from a sustainability perspective.

Informal Pattern Language a guide to Improvitecture Web .

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