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Building Quotes by Christopher Alexander
- 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…
- 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…
- The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as…
- 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…
- From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
- The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with…
- 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…
- It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns.…
- A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which…
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- On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in… — Nellie Bly