"When they have a choice, people will always……" — Christopher Alexander
"When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty."
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33 Quotes by Christopher Alexander
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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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