A Pattern Language proved invaluable to nonarchitects building their own homes, and by 1980 Alexander, who was based in Berkeley, Calif., and leavened a mathematician’s precision with Zen-like ...

Like a few other software companies, ObjectVenture is trying to bring ''literary'' patterns into the development tool environment. In an effort to transcend the limitations of the literary aspect of ...

We take an intimate look at Christopher Alexander's influential work of the 1970s, A Pattern Language, in which he ascribes patterns to architecture, claiming that they cross cultures and context ...