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Whole Quotes by Christopher Alexander
- 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…
- From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
- In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole -…
- We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and…
- 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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