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The Timeless Way of Building. The Timeless Way of Building is a 1979 book by Christopher Alexander that proposes a new theory of architecture (and design in general) that relies on the understanding and configuration of design patterns. Although it came out later, it is essentially the introduction to A Pattern Language and The Oregon ...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo ...
A pattern language is 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. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander and popularized by his 1977 book A Pattern Language. A pattern language can also be an attempt to ...
The ultimate object of design is form. The reason that iron filings placed in a magnetic field exhibit a pattern – have form – is that the field they are in is not homogeneous... Nevertheless, what matters here is not only the form itself but the forces induced by the magnetic field. The fact that the magnetic field induces certain kind of ...
Pattern languages. Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) [1][2][3] was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture ...
Tarot of Marseilles. Cards from 1751. The Tarot of Marseilles is a standard pattern of Italian-suited tarot pack with 78 cards that was very popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing tarot card games and is still produced today. It was probably created in Milan before spreading to much of France, Switzerland and Northern Italy.
Design pattern. A design pattern is the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander [1] and has been adapted for various other disciplines, particularly software engineering. [2]
A 2007 article noted that every year, the company ceases producing 500 of its card designs while at the same time making available 500 original designs. [5] In the mid-2000s, the cards could be purchased at Barnes & Noble, Papyrus, and Hot Topic locations and on NobleWorks' website where buyers are permitted to personalize the cards. [5] [2] In ...