A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction milk pitcher creamy white

creamy white

A symbol of transition and transformation

On the side of the chop is incised text

This vase would look great just about anywhere

with just a tiny bit of loss to the gilding around the rim

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction milk pitcher creamy whiteI love this book, which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings, with a great sense of poetry to boot. Published by Oxford University Press in 1977, authors Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl King, Shlomo Angel) sought to identify essential, enduring design problems or "patterns" (of which they identify 253) and ways of approaching