Jess's Lab Notebook

A Pattern Language

by Christopher Alexander and others

Uses Pattern Languages to describe patterns for architecture.

Pattern Language is a fascinating book. It's organizational style is unlike anything else I've ever read. It's densely interlinked and operates at several levels of scale. The writing itself is meant to be read at differing scale levels.

There are a few visualizations which reveal this "deep structure":

Also, all the content for APL can be found at: https://github.com/maxkrieger/pattern-language-cards

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