The Timeless Way of Building

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The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. Increasingly people are aware that something is deeply improper. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is going on, because they’re afraid to seem foolish, afraid possibly that they’re going to be laughed at.

Now, at last, there’s a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.

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 at all times pulled the order of their world from their own being.

Alexander writes, “There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has at all times been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have at all times been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you are going to see, this way will lead somebody who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.”

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