The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
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“@katarinabatina Read Alexander’s books back during full time programmer times. They were fantastic.”
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Design, and Philosophy.
In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of Architecture,, building, and planning which has at its core that ageold process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.He writes, ?There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Design, and Philosophy.
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