{"repo":"zenodotus280/apl-md","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md","clone":"git clone https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md.git","description":null,"language":null,"stars":237,"topics":["architecture","digitization","markdown","obsidian"],"license":null,"category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"2024-05-14 - Discussion on Hacker News! - Welcoming typo corrections and other errata at the markdown repo. --- Preamble This project is an abridged, hyper-textual, and copyleft manifestation of the 1977 architecture classic A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. It is compiled from markdown into a static website using Quartz. I created it to serve as both an accessible reference for myself and as a way to share the ideas with others. From the inside cover: 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. --- [!cite] Volume 1, The Timeless Way of Building ... lays the foundation of the series. It presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which forms the basis for a new traditional post-industrial architecture, created by the people ... [!cite] Volume 2, A Pattern Language ... is a working document for such an architecture. It is an archetypal language which allows lay persons to design for themselves. [!cite] Volume 3, The Oregon Experiment ... shows how this theory may be implemented, describing a new planning process for the University of Oregon. --- This Project in Context I first read A Timeless Way of Building and subsequently A Pattern Language some 10-15 years ago and it has forever influenced how I ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/zenodotus280","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/zenodotus280/apl-md/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}