"Speaking as a builder, if you start something,……" — Christopher Alexander
"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 what is there."
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33 Quotes by Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander has 33 quotes on this site.
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance…
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where…
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and…
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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are…
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which…
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more…
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has…
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts,…
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In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to…
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that…
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