{"id":7591,"date":"2019-10-17T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:56:51","slug":"a-pattern-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/a-pattern-language\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pattern Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t go to architecture school; devour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0195019199\/cooltools-20\">this book instead<\/a> and use it to design buildings and places that really work. This 1,000-page encyclopedia contains two hundred design patterns found in the buildings and cities that people love. For instance, pattern number 167: &#8220;Balconies and porches less than 6 feet deep are hardly ever used.&#8221; Therefore make balconies wider than 6 feet. Each pattern is what computer programmers call a heuristic: a compressed principle that can be unpacked in many ways. Each pattern is illustrated with exemplary examples and photos, and sociological evidence from studies of real places.<\/p>\n<p>Employ this book to design attractive, timeless buildings (or towns) by combining as many of these patterns as can be consistently contained in one project. Does the house have a hat? An obvious central entrance? A transition zone between public and private? All these are eternal patterns that have worked in the past and will make a place better. First published 45 years ago by Christopher Alexander and team, this book has influenced tens of thousands of architects and urban planners who credit it with giving them tools to make buildings and towns that operate at human scale.<\/p>\n<p>I used this pattern language to design our own house and my studio and both are structures that people love to be in. Among the many fancy homes I have visited, my three favorites are houses designed by the owners using Alexander&#8217;s pattern wisdom. These spaces are comfortable, humane, inviting, and the structures treat inhabitants intelligently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design heuristics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[2307,2315,2328],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34565,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions\/34565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}