理解Christopher Alexander

• Overview

  From Design Patterns, “The importance of patterns in crafting complex systems has been long recognized in other disciplines. In particular, Chirstopher Alexander and his colleagues were perhaps the first to propose the idea of using a pattern language to architect buildings and cities.”

• Christopher Alexander

  ***Christopher Wolfgang Alexander***(born 1936 in Vienna) is a widely influential British-American architect and design theorist.

  His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, sociology and others.

• Relationship with software

  In software, Alexander is regarded as the father of the pattern language movement.

  The first wiki - the technology behind Wikipedia - led directly from Alexander’s work, according to its creator, Ward Cunningham.

  Alexander’s work has also influenced the development of agile software development.

• Published works

  A Pattern Language

  The Timeless Way of Building

  A City is Not a Tree

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• 专门网站

  patternlanguage

• References

1. Design Patterns