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Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $52.12"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words,... -
The Production of Houses by Christopher Alexander 9780195032239
Booksplease Price: $214.70As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon... -
Bloodlines by Christopher Alexander Berg 9781771433525
Booksplease Price: $41.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771433525Author Christopher Alexander BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint CCB... -
Villain by Christopher Alexander Berg 9781771435970
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $34.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771435970Author Christopher Alexander BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint CCB... -
The Oregon Experiment by Christopher Alexander 9780195018240
Booksplease Price: $129.59After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their... -
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander 9780195024029
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $102.86The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas... -
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $91.83You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a... -
A New Theory of Urban Design by Christopher Alexander 9780195037531
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $111.13In this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natural growth, and suggests a set of rules and... -
Trash Can Man by Christopher Alexander Berg 9781771434133
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $37.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771434133Author Christopher Alexander BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint CCB... -
History of the County Buildings of Northamptonshire. by Christopher Alexander Markham 9781241324032
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241324032Author Christopher Alexander MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint British... -
Shifting Patterns: Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus Eva Guttmann 9783038601494
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $50.78Christopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement, popularised in his pivotal 1968 book, A Pattern Language, with Sara... -
Tunisia: From stability to revolution in the Maghreb Christopher Alexander (Davidson college, USA) 9781138886162
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated... -
A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Christopher Alexander 9780972652933
Booksplease Price: $136.58In Book Three of this four-volume work, Alexander presents hundreds of his own buildings and those of his contemporaries who have used methods consistent with the theory of living process.Containing... -
Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander: Thinking, Building, Writing Howard Davis 9781032034812
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.99This book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (1936-2022), many of which have not been published before. The book contains twenty-five... -
The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order, Book 2: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Christopher Alexander 9780972652926
Booksplease Price: $135.81Christopher Alexander's masterwork, the result of 27 years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a commonsense... -
Hexham Abbey revealed: The Hexham Abbey Project, 2009-2017 by Christopher Alexander Tolan-Smith 9780952761594
Booksplease Price: $18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952761594Author Christopher Alexander Tolan-SmithFormat PaperbackImprint Hexham Local History... -
Hand Book to French Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate (1899) by Christopher Alexander Markham 9781498177986
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $39.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498177986Author Christopher Alexander MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Literary... -
The Records of the Borough of Northampton ... Illustrated. Preface by the Lord Bishop of London [M. Creighton], Introductory Chapter on the History of the Town by W. R. D. Adkins. by Christopher Alexander Markham 9781241306816
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241306816Author Christopher Alexander MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint British... -
The History and Antiquities of Geddington, Northamptonshire ... [Based on Notes Of, And] with Preface By, the Late REV. T. C. B. Cornwell. by Christopher Alexander Markham 9781241317980
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241317980Author Christopher Alexander MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint British... -
The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America by Michael H. Carriere
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $67.94In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and... -
Pattern Language for Game Design Christopher Barney 9780367367725
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $113.61Chris Barney's Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best... -
Planning Urban Places: Self-Organising Places with People in Mind by Mary Ganis 9781138297029
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $95.82Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change. Urban design and planning in a changing urban context so that it remains... -
Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism by Noah Billig 9781138244313
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $111.91Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey - Karanfilkoey and Fatih Sultan Mehmet - to examine how generatively built... -
The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s by Larry D. Busbea
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39How new conceptions of human-environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their... -
People and Buildings by Robert Gutman
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.61There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists have been added to faculties of architecture... -
“Patterns” of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah: Investigating the Relationship Between the Public Spaces and Residential Units by Basma Massoud 9781032389523
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $77.99“Patterns” of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the... -
Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia by Chris Aslan 9781837731206
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $15.06Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool... -
Architectonics of Poiēsis: Architectural Creation Reconsidered Simina Anamaria Lörincz 9783031599583
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $185.01This volume explores the meaning of the architectural creative act, following the dynamics of the relationship between creator-creative act-creation and the way in which architecture is defined over... -
Project Design Patterns: 32 Patterns of Practical Knowledge for Producers, Project Managers, and Those Involved in Launching New Businesses by Takashi Iba 9780359325993
RRP: $37.95Booksplease Price: $35.74Architect/designer Fumio Kajiwara and pattern language expert Takashi Iba bring to life 32 patterns crucial to creating and managing innovative projects. "Project Design Patterns" is a... -
Pattern Language for Game Design by Christopher Barney
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $250.47Chris Barney’s Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best... -
Pattern Language for Game Design Christopher Barney 9781032824710
Booksplease Price: $134.38Christopher Barney’s Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive... -
Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling by Leslie J. Waguespack 9781447162148
Booksplease Price: $203.64How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexander's fifty-year quest to... -
Encounters with Architecture: Insights from a Hundred Places Howard Davis 9781032976334
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $72.64The hundred places of this book were visited over several decades, and played an important role in Davis's career. Insights come from everyday places and famous landmarks: some beautiful, some the... -
Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling by Leslie J. Waguespack 9781849963015
Booksplease Price: $192.53How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexander's fifty-year quest to... -
Hermann Czech: An Architect in Vienna Eva Kuss 9783038603467
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $67.26Hermann Czech, born in 1936, is one of Austria's most eminent and influential architects and theorists. This influence is based not only on his work as a designing architect, which extends to... -
The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture by Nili Portugali 9783936681055
RRP: $83.79Booksplease Price: $64.28NOMINATED FOR THE RIBA INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2007. In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a... -
Computational Design Thinking: Computation Design Thinking by Achim Menges
RRP: $67.10Booksplease Price: $62.01The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by... -
Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America by Avigail Sachs 9780813947556
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate... -
My Kind of City: Collected Essays of Hank Dittmar Hank Dittmar 9781642830361
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $74.66"Hank lived by the credo, `first listen, then design'." -Scott Bernstein, Founder and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Center for Neighborhood Technology Hank Dittmar was a globally... -
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement: The Selected Writings of David Seamon David Seamon (Kansas State University, USA) 9781032357294
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $249.84Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in...