Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: A Pattern Language

[Lee Haring (LEHBC]

Cantine's Island group of Saugerties, New York has adhered to as many of Christ
opher Alexander's patterns as we could. Fortunately we found a gifted architect
 who already knew them and was sympathetic to cohousing: Raym deRis of Belmont,
 Massachusetts. On a small site with relatively few families, though, it seemed
 to us we had to select from among Alexander's patterns those that appealed to
us and that were practicable. It's hard to imagine everything in the book being
 simultaneously realized, especially since a few of the patterns overlap or eve
n contradict each other in execution.