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Though the pattern language was created by the architect from people's words, it is theirs — they recognize it as their own collective vision

Describes the appropriate role of the architect as scribe, not author of the collective vision

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Thinkers (1)

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Christopher Alexander
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Eishin Campus design and construction, Japan, 1980s
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A multi-year project where a new school campus was created through a collectively built pattern language, with deep involvement of faculty and students

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Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.811
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 systemhypothesis0.808
Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
The pattern language Alexander's team developed for Peru was judged by Peruvians to be a more accurate reflection of Peruvian reality than even the Peruvian architects had managedclaim0.797
Empirical outcome of the Peru empathic immersion method, cited from jurors' report
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 degreeclaim0.789
Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere
Artificially Created Pattern Languageconcept0.778
A pattern language deliberately constructed for a new context rather than inherited from tradition, requiring the same organic grounding in cultural wholeness
Alexander team's Peru pattern language judged by Peruvians to be more accurate than Peruvian architects' work, per UN competition jurors' reportfinding0.767
Empirical validation of the empathic immersion method from the 1969-70 UN Lima competition
A pattern language is a work of poetry and art, potentially as profound in its way as a building can beclaim0.767
Alexander's characterization of the deep nature of pattern languages in section 13
A true collective pattern language will almost always contain the fifteen properties as transformations, and they will be implicit in the geometry of the patternsclaim0.766
Connection between the deep structure of the vision and the fifteen properties of living structure