A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction German shepherd or on top of a

or on top of a table

circa 1960

Large enough to be used as dinner plates

I immediately thought of Velasquez’s “las Meninas

ancient to modern

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction German shepherd or on top of aI 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