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 a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. Wikipedia quotes this seminal passage from The Timeless Way of Building: He felt that systems that do a better job replicating those of nature work best and could most easily be made both useful and beautiful in architecture and urbanism. His books, primarily Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964), A Pattern Language 1977), The Timeless Way of Building (1979), A New Theory of Urban Design (1987), and his four-volume The Nature of Order (2002-04), to name a few, show his interest in systems, natural and manmade. His more than 200 works of architecture were deeply natural, springing from the order and processes of nature that were the study of his lifetime. The great architectural and computer design theorist Christopher Alexander, born in Vienna and of British and American citizenship, died at his home in Binsted, Sussex, U.K.
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