All Christopher Alexander Quotes
- Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and… Almost Never
- Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. Drawing
- It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by… Alive
- We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot… Cannot Properly
- To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating… Capable
- To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of… Building
- When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do. Cleaning
- The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as… Building
- There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional… Been
- From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. Building
- In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole -… Cooperate
- In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:… Each
- Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your… Able
- People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness. Creating
- 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… Ago
- 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 its… According
- The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with… Believe
- Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. Architect
- The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way… Action
- I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are… Alike
- Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. Complexity
- All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space… All
- The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact… All
- 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… Build
- Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing… Arise