A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand He was a faculty member

He was a faculty member at the Cambridge School of Weston

I’m so intrigued by this tiny clay figure on horseback

the raven is a sacred figure in Northwest Coast native cultures

*Knife sharpener box he is standing on sold separately

The hand thrown vase is signed at the bottom

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand He was a faculty memberI 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