You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building.  And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.  At the core of this book is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities.  This idea may be radical but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were mot made by architects but by people. At the core of the book is the point that in designing their environments, people always rely on certain "languages," which  like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.
 
 
 

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