Template language

“The Language of Patterns” has the same status in architecture as “The Godfather” in cinema. This cult book was first published by Oxford University Press in 1977, and since then it has certainly been included in the lists of the most influential. (The Ukrainian edition is difficult to call a book due to its 1,144 pages and 900 illustrations.)

Alexander describes in detail 253 “patterns” — archetypal architectural patterns that manifest themselves in the environment, regardless of time and style. Patterns help create a human-centered environment at any scale: from your own room to a city block. (Perhaps some of the readers will be lucky enough to convince their neighbors, using the language of templates, that the safest entrance doors are not iron ones, but transparent ones.)

“Architecture Out of Time” and “The Language of Templates” constitute a comprehensive statement about the theory and practice of humanistic architecture, its sources and process.