Oregon Experiment

Title: Oregon Experiment Author: Christopher Alexander ISBN: 9780195018240 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 1975 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Architecture & Design 1317703 Publisher Description: After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works 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, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment. 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 fo