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Which 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole -…
- 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:…
- 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…
- The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with…
- 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…
- 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…
- This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but…
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