A Pattern Language

is the second in a series of books which describe an entirely new attitude to architecture and planning.

The books are intended to provide a complete working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning—an alternative which will, we hope, gradually replace current ideas and practices.

ALEXANDER, Christopher, ISHIKAWA, Sara and SILVERSTEIN, Murray, 1977. A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-501919-3.