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Christopher Alexander

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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.


— Christopher Alexander


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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.


— Christopher Alexander


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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.


— Christopher Alexander


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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.


— Christopher Alexander


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Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.


— Christopher Alexander


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I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.


— Christopher Alexander


#build #feedback #get #going #gone

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.


— Christopher Alexander


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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.


— Christopher Alexander


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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 the needs of the whole.


— Christopher Alexander


#balance #between #define #kind #needs

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.


— Christopher Alexander


#debris #make #most #out #something






About Christopher Alexander






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Reasoning that users know more about the buildings they need than any architect could he produced and validated (in collaboration with Sarah Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein) a "pattern language" designed to empower anyone to design and build at any scale. It describes exact methods for constructing practical safe and attractive designs at every scale from entire regions through cities neighborhoods gardens buildings rooms built-in furniture and fixtures down to the level of doorknobs. It first has users prototype a structure on-site in temporary materials.

As such Alexander is widely considered to occupy a place outside the discipline the discourse and the practice of Architecture. Now retired (though still active) he is based in Arundel Sussex UK. [citation needed] In 1958 he moved from England to the United States living and teaching in Berkeley California from 1963.

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