Thanks to @jan for pointing me to #christopheralexander and his #books The Nature of Order. Amazing Christmas holiday read.

Undulating moss-covered ground, and a portion of weathered perimeter wall surrounding the #Zen garden, Ryōan-ji Temple, #Kyoto, #Japan.

#mosstodon #gardens #meditation #ChristopherAlexander #moss

#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:

1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten

2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien

3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander

4. Queens’ Play by #DorothyDunnett

5. Little White Horse by #ElizabethGoudge

6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin

7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirouard

#books #authors

#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:

1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten

2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien

3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander

4. Queens’ Play by #DorothyDunnett

5. Little White Horse by #ElizabethGoudge

6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin

7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirourd

#books #authors

#7books to know me (and that changed me) - hard to keep it to just seven:

1. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten

2. Lord of the Rings by #Tolkien

3. A Pattern Language by #ChristopherAlexander

4. Queens’ Play by #Dorothy Dunnett

5. Little White Horse by #Elizabeth Goudge

6. Always Coming Home by #leGuin

7. Life in the English Country House by #MarkGirourd

#introduction Happy to be here and follow folks with similar interests. Mine include #writing, #design, #architecture, especially #christopheralexander, #womenpainters, especially #JoanMitchell & #JayDefeo, #editing, #poetry, and #SmallPresses. Recently relocated from the foothills of the Cascades to the north coast of California and loving the Noyo area. Ran a small poetry press for 20 years.

#introduction Happy to be here and follow folks with similar interests. Mine include #writing, #design, #architecture, especially #christopheralexander, #womenpainters, especially #JoanMitchell & #JayDefeo, #editing, #poetry, and #SmallPresses. Recently relocated from the foothills of the Cascades to the north coast of California and loving the Noyo area. Ran a small poetry press for 20 years.

A remarkable person has died. I think I first learned about him from @rd and explored A Pattern Language. A couple of years ago I finally decided to buy the beautiful (but expensive!) four volumes of The Nature of Order, which I have been reading, a few pages a day, every day. His insistence on finding the existing and potential centers and using them to enhance life is something I want to integrate into my own life and work.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/29/christopher-alexander-obituary

#christopheralexander

While many outside of the field of architecture like the #ChristopherAlexander #PatternLanguage approach, it’s not so well accepted by his peers. A summary of criticisms by #MichaelJDawes and #MichaelJOstwald #UNSWBuiltEnv is helpful in appreciating when the use of pattern language might be appropriate or not appropriate.
https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/christopher-alexanders-a-pattern-language-analysing-mapping-and-classifying-the-critical-response-dawes-and-ostwald-2017/

With the distinction made between #PatternLanguage and form language by #NikosSalingaros, a broader vision of the "life" sought by #ChristopherAlexander has led me through #GeneralSystemsTheory and #RobertRosen into the R-theory of #JohnJKineman.

http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pattern-language-form-language-general-systems-theory-r-theory/

Brian Eno emphielt

"Pattern Languages" von Christopher Alexander.

http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/brian-eno-book-lists.html

Kann ich sehr empfehlen. Die Praxis die dahinter steckt ist nicht ganz simple und erfordert von der gruppe/community Disziplin.

https://www.band2.dieweltdercommons.de/essays/mit_mustern_arbeiten.html

#commons #christopherAlexander #Pattern #PatternLanguages