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concept:artificially-created-pattern-languageArtificially Created Pattern Language
A pattern language deliberately constructed for a new context rather than inherited from tradition, requiring the same organic grounding in cultural wholeness
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- A Pattern Languagerelated_toAlexander'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
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- A unique pattern language crafted from the voices and dreams of a particular community, not a generic template
- The process of creating artificial pattern languages: iterating lists of centers, testing them as wholes, improving until the living whole reveals itself
- Alexander's characterization of the deep nature of pattern languages in section 13
- Interpretation of Alexander’s later work as a rule-based game that requires contextual improvisation, though limited to pre-defined patterns.
- Describes the appropriate role of the architect as scribe, not author of the collective vision
- Designs containing a repeating motif