A pattern language is a work of poetry and art, potentially as profound in its way as a building can be

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• The Pattern Language is a game that regulates the interaction between man and environment and its complexity lies in the interface of the generative rules coded in the patterns with the specific circumstances of its application.claim0.886
  Interpretation of Alexander’s later work as a rule-based game that requires contextual improvisation, though limited to pre-defined patterns.
• Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.882
• A Pattern Languageconcept0.857
  Alexander's earlier book (1977, Oxford University Press) containing 253 design patterns; extensively referenced throughout this chapter for functional examples of each of the fifteen properties
• A Pattern Language patterns are not analogies but literal gradients of care over space—each already encodes care relationships.claim0.836
• A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent systemhypothesis0.822
  Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
• The mere list of centers in a pattern language, just from their naming, already conveys a profound atmosphere and defines the life of the place to an enormous degreeclaim0.794
  Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere
• A well-constructed pattern language has the fifteen properties embedded within it, giving it a driving force that makes geometrical wholeness more easily visible and attainableclaim0.788
  Connecting pattern language theory to the fifteen properties framework as its geometric substrate
• Artificially Created Pattern Languageconcept0.787
  A pattern language deliberately constructed for a new context rather than inherited from tradition, requiring the same organic grounding in cultural wholeness