Explore: House Pattern Books

architect-designed works. A number of pattern books have been very influential in spreading architectural styles. An early author of pattern books was American architect

Random House Publishing Group and Random House Children's Books, as well as several imprints. Random House was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald

best-selling books on architecture. The book creates a new language, what the authors call a pattern language derived from timeless entities called patterns. As

The Willow pattern is a distinctive and elaborate chinoiserie pattern used on ceramic tableware. It became popular at the end of the 18th century in England

A design pattern is the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander and has been

Random House Limited is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random

Mayor. "The House is a somewhat modest Victorian Eclectic house type that was most likely influenced by house pattern books. This house type was not

Penguin Books Limited is an English publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers

and Shlomo Angel to produce a pattern language that would empower anyone to design and build at any scale. His other books include Notes on the Synthesis

pattern beneath the pediments of the window hoods. There are conflicting claims as to where the sandstone used in the construction of the White House