![]() ![]() Among the 253 entries in A Pattern Language, several are marked with double asterisks-meaning, according to Alexander’s introduction, that they identify “a property common to all possible ways of solving the stated problem.” He made provision for other people’s ideas, sort of. His most famous book, A Pattern Language (1977), contains 253 prescriptions, ranging from how to organize the planet (“Wherever possible, work toward the evolution of independent regions in the world, each with a population between 2 and 10 million”), to how to organize a bathroom (“put in two or three racks for huge towels, one by the door, one by the shower, one by the sink”). Besides obtaining two architecture degrees, he “read” mathematics at Cambridge, then studied cognition at Harvard and transportation theory and computer science at MIT he taught at Berkeley for nearly 40 years and he wrote a couple dozen books of extraordinary erudition. ![]() Christopher Alexander, who died last week at 85, was brainy. ![]()
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