Short description
In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.
Long description
Brilliant....Here's how to design or redesign any space you're living or working in--from metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically conservative observations will spark, enhance, organize your best ideas, and a wondrous
home, workplace, town will result --San Francisco Chronicle. This classic handbook presents a language which ordinary people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.
Review
Tony Ward, Architectural Design
"I believe this to be perhaps the most important book on architectural design published this century. Every library, every school, every environmental action group, every architect and every first-year student should have a copy."