It’s not on sci-hub 🥺 doi.org/10.5840/ijap20…
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“Since our built environment is itself a condition of successfully ordered human action, the construction of this environment has immense ethical significance. Christopher Alexander’s architectural theory is remarkably consonant with this picture…” 
Alexander’s pattern language as an Aristotelian exploration of the material conditions for the common good; e.g., “Light on Two Sides of Every Room” allows people to understand each other.
I’ve been thinking about this in terms of the mind’s embodiedness making architecture a central concern for thinking itself. Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space” views the home as the structure that protects daydreaming. Thinking takes space, it happens somewhere, it’s embedded.
“What Alexander says of the process of deliberative unfolding in design applies precisely to the activity of wise practical reasoning…”
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