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The Timeless Way of Building

The Timeless Way of Building

Christopher Alexander
1979
552 pages · about 9h 12m to read OL17431345Wgoodreads

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“A recommended favorite; Alexander's pattern thinking strongly influences Perell.”
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“The philosophical companion to A Pattern Language, written before it but meant to be read after. Alexander asks what the 'quality without a name' is that makes certain places feel alive, and argues it emerges from a design process that is alive — recursive, human-scaled, and attentive to specific conditions rather than general rules.”

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