#architecture

6 items tagged architecture.

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities — The founding text of human-scale thinking — observation over ideology, sidewalks over master plans.
• A Pattern Language — 253 patterns for building places people love — and, quietly, the ancestor of every 'design pattern' in software.
• Human-Scale Design — Borrowing from Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander: systems, like cities, work when they are legible and lovable at the scale of a person.
• What Comes After the Lloyd Center? — Portland's beloved but beleaguered Lloyd Center and skating rink come to an end.
• Sacramento's Downtown Design Catastrophe — Exploring the madness of crowds. Co-written with Olivia.
• Malta — Limestone, wrecks, and eight thousand years of people stacking stone at the middle of the sea.