Christopher Alexander Quotes

British-American architect and design theorist, known for his influential work on "A Pattern Language" and "The Nature of Order."

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environ... -Christopher Alexander

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Discovering the context

The quote acknowledges the challenges posed by complexity in the field of environmental design. It suggests that dealing with intricate and multifaceted aspects within the context of design for the environment presents significant obstacles or issues that need to be addressed and navigated.

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. 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.

Christopher Alexander Quotes

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