This explain a lot for me -- there I was spending a decade promoting "the thing" , the new perception that involked intire design process, by allowing a program calculate the entities for assembling a building structure , from start to finish , ,odeling the Solid in 3D, then slicing them into sections the right way, and BANG ,a new way to project, design and manufactor.
From the start I thought pattern language alian ; sure it was stimulating with a splendid textbook about inteligent networks. But Arciitecture today ask real computing options, way's to build. Not brilliant A.I. programming just new way's to use the computer, and the ability to build four times as strong, computed and easily manufactored, building foundations. A structure that gurantie the develobment of new materials so instead of 300 different items, boards, rivits, stringers and profiles all varying types, then one material, just one material could replace them all.
Methods that calculate an intier simple building structure, into easy N.C. manufactored building parts, would proberly profit from a structure pointed out with pattern language .. but those idears has nothing to do with using methods such as 3Dh ,3D honeycomb or any method that save a bundle in projecting and designing with modern tools, psttern language are a perfect textbook about C++ programming and object oriented programming , I newer thought about it as other than software architecture

I discovered A Pattern Language quite by accident in a bookstore while travelling. When I read it I was stunned. Without being overly dramatic, it changed my life.

It wasn't available, however, at my university's architecture library.

When I asked my architecture professors about it, they scoffed at the book and didn't think it worthy of discussion much less that it be present in the Architecture Library.

Ah well, nevermind. The censorship failed.

I've bought the book many times (probably 30 or more) and given it as gifts and even as required reading to clients prior to working with them.

What a dam treat! - to rediscover Christopher Alexander - albeit in an entirely new context. A man who tells us stuff we already know - ever so subliminally. A Pattern Language sits on my bookshelf - not read in many a year. Computers are not my medium but how reassuring to learn C. A. is interjecting his humanly perceptive voice.