{"title":"Architecture--Criticism","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-timeless-way-of-building","title":"The Timeless Way of Building","description":"The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Timeless Way of Building\u003c\/em\u003e is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series, Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexander writes, \"There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.\"\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0195024028\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780195024029\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Alexander, Christopher, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Aug 1979)","offer_id":45659173126341,"sku":"9780195024029","price":71.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780195024029.jpg?v=1768906486"},{"product_id":"a-place-of-my-own-the-architecture-of-daydreams","title":"A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"A room of one's own: Is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shape?\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eA Place of My Own, \u003c\/i\u003ehe turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property--a place in which he hoped to read, write, and daydream, built with his own two unhandy hands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Pollan's unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ewhether eating, gardening, or building\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eand the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Omnivore's Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Food\u003c\/i\u003e. With this updated edition of his earlier book \u003ci\u003eA Place of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan's realization of a room of his own\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ea small, wooden hut, his \"shelter for daydreams\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ebuilt with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, \u003ci\u003eA Place of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0143114743\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780143114741\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Pollan, Michael\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2009)","offer_id":45937599054021,"sku":"9780143114741","price":18.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780143114741_46767304-27cb-43b9-bc93-70cb257cc9a6.jpg?v=1772881018"},{"product_id":"a-pattern-language-towns-buildings-construction","title":"A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction","description":"You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, \"lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely.\" The three books are \u003cem\u003eThe Timeless Way of Building\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Oregon Experiment\u003c\/em\u003e, and this book, \u003cem\u003eA Pattern Language\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain \"languages,\" which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Patterns,\" the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0195019199\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780195019193\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Alexander, Christopher\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Aug 1977)","offer_id":45937614160069,"sku":"9780195019193","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780195019193.jpg?v=1772881218"},{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-happiness","title":"The Architecture of Happiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. 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