Sociate

If you live in the Berkeley hills and you care about Christopher Alexander's work, you probably know that he lives in a quirky, kinda homely pink house on Shasta.

I'd never really stopped to look, but the always wry Jay Cross did. Then he decided to distill the pattern language he saw in use there, which you can see in a brief presentation here.

I'd never noticed Funky Mailbox or Inaccessible Door. I think we all use Improvised Cable Access.

For a look at the original patterns in A Pattern Language, visit here (requires fee to dig in).