The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander

The timeless way - The quality without a name - Being alive - Patterns of events - Patterns of space - Patterns which are alive - The multiplicity of living patterns - The quality itself - The flower and the seed - Our pattern languages - Our pattern languages (cont.) - The creative power of language - The breakdown of language - Patterns which can be shared - The reality of patterns - The structure of a language - The evolution of a common language for a town - The genetic power of language - Differentiating space - One pattern at a time - Shaping one building - Shaping a group of buildings - The process of construction - The process of repair - The slow emergence of a town - Its ageless character - The kernel of the wayĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:21:02 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA40362020 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.'-Jacket The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. Alexander writes, 'There is one timeless way of building. Christopher Alexander presents it in a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being. The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series. Now, at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.

More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong.

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt.

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander