Periodically this book gets mentioned to me, and I try reading it and bounce off. I’d be interested in someone going in more detail into the parts that seem sensible/interesting/tractable for mid-level organization projects.
(concretely: the Lightcone team is working longterm on building a campus, and I expect us to be more likely to make use of a good summary of this, or a strong recommendation that the whole thing is worth reading)
It may be helpful to read the first work in the series to give you an idea of the general framework: The Timeless Way of Building. In the Timeless Way, Alexander exposes his general theory of “building” (again, the intent could be anything from a country to a simple home). A Pattern Language is a compendium of the elements that one would use to flesh out a project. I also read Pattern Language first and was baffled by it until having read the Timeless Way, at which point it all fell into place for me.
I believe that there are PDF copies available on archive.org.
Periodically this book gets mentioned to me, and I try reading it and bounce off. I’d be interested in someone going in more detail into the parts that seem sensible/interesting/tractable for mid-level organization projects.
(concretely: the Lightcone team is working longterm on building a campus, and I expect us to be more likely to make use of a good summary of this, or a strong recommendation that the whole thing is worth reading)
It may be helpful to read the first work in the series to give you an idea of the general framework: The Timeless Way of Building. In the Timeless Way, Alexander exposes his general theory of “building” (again, the intent could be anything from a country to a simple home). A Pattern Language is a compendium of the elements that one would use to flesh out a project. I also read Pattern Language first and was baffled by it until having read the Timeless Way, at which point it all fell into place for me. I believe that there are PDF copies available on archive.org.
Use the table of contents / “summary of the language” section.
For your project I would recommend skipping to 28 and then going from there, and skipping patterns which don’t seem relevant.