A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand the raven is a sacred

the raven is a sacred figure in Northwest Coast native cultures

it was published by the Hayes Lithographing Co

*Knife sharpener box he is standing on sold separately

and would be wonderful on the bedside table

A Pattern Language; Towns, Buildings, Construction porcelain hand the raven is a sacredI 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