Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: A Pattern Language online?

[Michael Donovan (editor]

We have used Christopher Alexander's book, A Pattern Language, to stimulate
a discussion of our design values as they relate to cohousing.

I have found two online resources about his ideas:

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Christopher_Alexander.html
This site includes this page on Alexander with links to other resources
including the following:

http://www.patternlanguage.com
This site is apparently sponsored by Alexander & Co. It offers many ideas
(not to mention an inventive web interface) but much of the content is for
members-only. Membership currently costs $20 for access until the end of the
year.

Michael Donovan
Village in the City
St. Louis MO


on 11/5/00 9:06 AM, Fred H Olson at fholson [at] cohousing.org wrote:

> 
> The Sunday Morning Edition on National Public Radio (NPR) just had a
> segment (about 8:55 CST 11/5/00) on
> the architectual book _A Pattern Language_ and it's author (Alexander?)
> and what he is up to now including a 4 book series on ???   anyone
> summarize better? The segment can be heard on the NPR website I think
> tho my computer is incable of doing so.
> 
> It was mentioned that there is a new related website but the closest I've
> come it by searching so far is a reference on Altavista to
> http://www.apatternlanguage.net/
> which is not found (at the moment at least)
> 
> Anyone know any more?  Anyone ever had direct contact with these folks
> about cohousing?
> 
> Fred
> 
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