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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. Title: The Timeless Way of BuildingAuthor: Christopher Alexander Publisher: Oxford University Press The Timeless Way of Building is the first in a series of books which describe an entirely new attitude to architecture and planning. The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series, Christopher Alexander presents in it 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.Īlexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building. Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.
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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.
THE TIMELESS WAY OF BUILDING SOFTWARE
The idea of pattern languages has not only been influential in architecture but also in other fields such as software architecture, education, and interaction design. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. In the Timeless Way of Building (first published in 1979), Cristopher Alexander exposes his theory of the use of pattern languages in architecture. The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt.