This is the most incredible book on architecture (by Christopher Alexander).
I don’t know if a book has ever resounded with me this deeply before.
It’s truly wonderful.
I don’t know if a book has ever resounded with me this deeply before.
It’s truly wonderful.
Every page has these statements that resound to my core:
“For what is at stake, in a pattern that lives, is not merely the fact that it makes us feel good, but the fact that actually liberates a portion of the world from the imprisoning effect of concepts and opinions.”
“For what is at stake, in a pattern that lives, is not merely the fact that it makes us feel good, but the fact that actually liberates a portion of the world from the imprisoning effect of concepts and opinions.”
Alexander has this concept called “the intimacy gradient.”
It perfectly illustrates this need we all have inside us to have a spectrum of rooms in our buildings that go from public to private.
It perfectly illustrates this need we all have inside us to have a spectrum of rooms in our buildings that go from public to private.
“Any preconception about the way things ‘ought to be’ always interferes with your sense of reality; it prevents you from seeing what is actually going on – and this will always prevent you from making the environment alive.”
– Christopher Alexander
– Christopher Alexander
