Pattern language
Lenguaje de patrón
- Date
- 1977 · confidence high
- Place
- Berkeley, California, United States
- Credited to
- Christopher Alexander
- Field
- Tools
What it is
An organized, coherent system of architectural and urban design patterns, each describing a problem and the core of its solution, proposed by Christopher Alexander to generate living, coherent built environments.
What it led to
- later influence on software design patterns
- new participatory design methodologies in architecture
- adoption of the term "design pattern" in other fields