" Le livre crée un nouveau langage, que les auteurs appellent un langage de schéma provenant d'entités intemporelles appelées modèles (en anglais : patterns : « Les 253 modèles forment ensemble une langue ». Les patterns décrivent un problème puis proposent une solution."

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa et Murray Silverstein avec Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel

• https://archive.org/details/battleforlifebea0000alex

Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change.

Peter Baumgartner, Richard Sickinger (dir.)

In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but rather, on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, published again on its fiftieth anniversary, is Alexander's classic text, together with new interpretive commentaries and discussions by leading theorists and practitioners. This volume is destined to become an invaluable resource for a new generation of students and practitioners.

Serge Chermayeff, Christopher Alexander

Joseph Bergin, Jutta Eckstein, Pedagogical Patterns Editorial Board

"This collection of patterns proposes some successful techniques to assist with teaching and learning, especially of technical subjects. For professional educators, these patterns may seem obvious, even trivial, because they have used them so often. But for those newer to teaching, they offer a way to obtain the deep knowledge of experienced teachers.

Patterns are not step-by-step recipes. Each of these offers a format and a process for transferring knowledge that can then be used by a variety of different teachers in many different ways. [...]"

“The Timeless Way of Building” is the opening work in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. Here Alexander introduces the ideas behind the succeeding books.
The book lays the foundation of the series. It presents a new theory of architecture, building and planning which has, at its core, that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being. It forms, in essence, the basis for a new post-industrial architecture, created by the people…

Collection Bibliotheque Laffont Des Grands Themes N°40