Last month, the architect and author Christopher Alexander received the Vincent Scully Prize, given annually by the National Building Museum “to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism ...

The timeless way -- The quality without a name -- Being alive -- Patterns of events -- Patterns of space -- Patterns which are alive -- The multiplicity of living patterns -- The quality itself -- The ...

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Here’s an extraordinary essay by the architect professor Christopher Alexander, author of the well-known book A Pattern Language. In the piece, Alexander talks about how his work over the decades, ...

Imagine a federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can ...

In the late 1970s, Christopher Alexander became an icon in the architecture world with his book, A Pattern Language. In it, he argued for injecting personal, emotional and spiritual qualities into ...

Christopher Alexander, the Viennese-born professor, architect and theorist who believed that ordinary people, not just trained architects, should have a hand in designing their houses, neighborhoods ...

As news spread in March of Christopher Alexander’s passing, I kept hearing a familiar story. On social media, architects of a certain age recounted catching their first glimpse of theory through ...