A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction Tevye and then a small batch

and then a small batch of clear of colorful cocktails at happy hour

with lots of scrapes and some paint splotches here and there

I love the not-quite triangular shape

with patina to copper and minor cracking of wood (visible in face) consistent with age and adding character

it is just no longer attached to something that would hold it tightly clamped

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction Tevye and then a small batchI 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