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A Pattern Language
253 patterns for designing buildings, towns, and cities that make human life flourish. A design classic.
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Christopher Alexander
Architect at Berkeley whose 1977 A Pattern Language and 1979 Timeless Way of Building proposed that good design can be reduced to a vocabulary of 253 reusable patterns. The work seeded modern software design patterns, wiki culture, and the agile movement.
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