The Linz Café

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The Linz Café
Christopher Alexander
The Linz Café ist the fifth and latest book in the series which includes The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, The Oregon Experiment and The Production of Houses, a series called "a watershed in the history of architecture" (Robert Campbell, Boston Globe). Here for the first time, Christopher Alexander describes a single building, commissioned by the organizers of the 1980 summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria, with the explicit intention of allowing him to express his ideas, concepts, feelings and philosophy, in a single building.
"I thought at once that people would be tired after walking so much in the exhibit," Alexander writes, "and that what was needed most of all was a beautiful place to sit down, be comfortable, have a cup of coffee or a beer, enjoy the beauty of the Danube."
The book describes the process of its design and the feelings which prompted it. Reflecting ideas presented in his earlier books and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Linz Café
Christopher Alexander
The Linz Café ist the fifth and latest book in the series which includes The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, The Oregon Experiment and The Production of Houses, a series called "a watershed in the history of architecture" (Robert Campbell, Boston Globe). Here for the first time, Christopher Alexander describes a single building, commissioned by the organizers of the 1980 summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria, with the explicit intention of allowing him to express his ideas, concepts, feelings and philosophy, in a single building.
"I thought at once that people would be tired after walking so much in the exhibit," Alexander writes, "and that what was needed most of all was a beautiful place to sit down, be comfortable, have a cup of coffee or a beer, enjoy the beauty of the Danube."
The book describes the process of its design and the feelings which prompted it. Reflecting ideas presented in his earlier books and offering tantalizing glimpses of work now in progress, it deals with the ultimate spiritual reality of buildings. Among other things, there are first sketches of ideas, so far not published elsewhere, of Alexander's theory of color, his love of ornament, and illustrations of the hand-painted flowers with which he covered the inside of the café in the last days before its opening.
The book is profusely illustrated with twenty-two pages in full color and thirty-eight additional pages of black-and-white photographs and original drawings.
Christopher Alexander, winner of the first medal for research ever awarded by the American Institute of Architects, is a practicing architect and contractor. Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Environmental Structure. He also wrote Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Vissza