The Timeless Way of Building
- The Timeless Way of Building
"The Timeless Way of Building" is a 1979 book that ties life and architecture together, written by Christopher Alexander.
It has had a huge influence on creative thinking, especially in the areas of architecture and software design.Fact|date=July 2008
In the book, Alexander introduces the concept of the "quality without a name", and argues that we should seek to include this nameless quality in our buildings. Alexander attempts to the idea by surrounding it with existing concepts that reflect a part of the quality with no name but are not sufficient to define it individually.Fact|date=July 2008
This book popularized the concept of the pattern language.Fact|date=July 2008
Other books in the same series are:
* "A Pattern Language" (volume 2)
* "The Oregon Experiment" (volume 3)
External links
* [http://patternlanguage.com/ PatternLanguage.com]
* [http://natureoforder.com/ The "Nature of Order" series]
* [http://natureoforder.com/library/scientific-introduction.pdf Article: New Concepts in Complex Theory. May 2003.]
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