Jessie Henshaw Dmitry - I think by far the most general repository of pattern research work is the series of world PLoP conferences sponsored by the Hillside Group. It's an amazing community of people and record of 20 years of work hosting multiple conferences, representing a progressive wing of the even larger software pattern language community. The EuroPLoP website is one entry into it. http://www.europlop.net/content/repositories
The other major center of pattern thinking is the original author's network, Chistopher Alexander's community site https://www.patternlanguage.com/ . There are various others too like http://www.patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org/ and
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv?page=1 for work of other people with social transformation patterns as a main interest. The PURPLSOC.org community has not put together a site of resources recommended by its members, too busy with their day jobs it seems. Other than such groups accumulating their own work it seems to have proven difficult to catalog the work being done. A lack of common descriptors seems to be the problem.
My own focus in on methods of recognizing naturally occurring patterns of design and transformations, identifying some of the working organization of the systems that are instrumental. I have 30 years of work on natural system pattern recognition, but just started writing about it in terms of modern pattern language. My paper for PURPSOC (where Helene also presented her recent PLAST paper) was "Guiding Patterns of Naturally Occuring design": http://synapse9.com/.../2015_PURPLSOC%20JLH%20final%20pub...
So... there does seem to be a large resource "out there" but it takes a bit of digging to find the threads of interest. Everyone has their favorites of Alexander's own writings, and it's very helpful to be familiar with the discussions of them. One can find a good bit by web search. I think his two very earliest writings seem to contain lots of clues to the form of pattern language that seems to eventually have worked, and some of his later writings appears to omit... as an interesting twist. That's his "A city is not a tree" and "Notes on the synthesis of form" from the early 60's... Amazon has inexpensive copies of the latter.
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