| Christopher Alexander | |
This quality in buildings and in towns cannot be made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people, just as a flower cannot be made, but only generated from the seed.
&[From Timeless Way of Building&] |
At the core of this books too is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of desings within a formal system which gives them coherence. &[From A Pattern Language&] |