A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction Tevye with one tiny flaw

with one tiny flaw

with lots of scrapes and some paint splotches here and there

The bowl measures 3 3/4" tall x 5 1/2" at widest diameter

or just purring

This is a wonderful

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction Tevye with one tiny flawI 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