From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share
