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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…

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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the…
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel…
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context…
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and…
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the…
When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes…
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.…
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily…
In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a…
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported…

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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the… — Christopher Alexander
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Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one. — Zach Braff
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Half a calamity is better than a whole one. — T.E. Lawrence

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