We take an intimate look at Christopher Alexander's influential work of the 1970s, A Pattern Language, in which he ascribes patterns to architecture, claiming that they cross cultures and context ...

So while a pattern language may work, its success depends on its application. Melbourne should be more than a repetitious variation of what we already know – designs must be transformative.

A form language could attach itself to Anti-patterns, but that of course does not make it adaptive. Form languages can be studied separately from their link to Pattern languages.