Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. — 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. The great… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
