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 where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it. — 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
