Sara Ishikawa

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Sara Ishikawa is an architect and academic specializing in people-space relationships. She is a professor emerita at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. She is co-author of A Pattern Language, The Oregon Experiment and Houses Generated By Patterns. [1] [2] [3]

She earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of California, Berkeley. [4]

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