It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no soone…

- Christopher Alexander

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

- Christopher Alexander

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly descr…

- Christopher Alexander

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure an…

- Christopher Alexander

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

- Christopher Alexander

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

- Christopher Alexander

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

- Christopher Alexander

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whol…

- Christopher Alexander

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more…

- Christopher Alexander