The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · P

Pattern language

Also called pattern, patterns

Christopher Alexander’s network of 253 recurring design problems and their solutions (1977), meant to be combined like words in a language.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Contemporary, Reading the Treatises.

Nearby in the glossary

Parti · Passive house · Passive solar design · Patte d’oie · Pedestal · Pediment · Pendentive · Pergola