{"id":18334,"date":"2014-01-13T02:10:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/christopher-alexander-a-pattern-language\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T02:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:10:19","slug":"christopher-alexander-a-pattern-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/christopher-alexander-a-pattern-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.studio360.org\/story\/121365-christopher-alexander-pattern-language\/#.UtL0vVHBewF.facebook'>Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/post\/73132709575\/christopher-alexander-a-pattern-language\">protoslacker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<div>Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman named Christopher Alexander tried to revolutionize architecture. In A Pattern Language, Alexander told architects and planners to design homes on emotional and spiritual principles \u2013 not on traffic flow. The revolution didn\u2019t quite come. But the book had a surprising influence on another group of experts: the computer scientists who were just beginning to shape the Internet. Produced by Lu Olkowski. (Originally aired: August 15, 2008)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was busy failing at college in the mid-1970\u2019s a roommate signed up for a book club which entitled him to get 4 books for just a buck. One of the books that arrived was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Oregon_Experiment\">The Oregon Experiment<\/a>\u00a0by Christopher Alexander. That book meant so much to me and I spent a long time finding out more about Christopher Alexander and his ideas. This show is the first time I have ever heard Alexander\u2019s voice. It\u2019s a small thing, but big to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language protoslacker: Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman named Christopher Alexander tried to revolutionize architecture. In A Pattern Language, Alexander told architects and planners to design homes on emotional and spiritual principles \u2013 not on traffic flow. The revolution didn\u2019t quite come. But the book had a surprising influence on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4LI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}