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Buildings 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…
- 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.…
- Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged -…
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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
- For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli
- I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind… — Joyce Brothers
- They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her… — Sitting Bull
- Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -… — Julie Burchill
- Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel,… — George W. Bush
- I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear… — George W. Bush
- It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel… — Christopher Alexander
- Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. — Herb Caen
- There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.… — Christopher Alexander