4 Quotes & Sayings By Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander was born in Cambridge, England, on January 11, 1929. He studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association in London. His book A Pattern Language (1977, Addison-Wesley) is considered by many to be the definitive work on pattern languages. He currently serves as an architectural consultant and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley Read more

Christopher Alexander lives in Berkeley with his wife, Maria Cristina, and two sons.

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Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. Christopher Alexander
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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. Christopher Alexander
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. 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. Christopher Alexander