Best quotes by Christopher Alexander on Life

Checkout quotes by Christopher Alexander on Life

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

  - Christopher Alexander
  

• ‟ The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

  - 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 it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

  - Christopher Alexander
  

• ‟ But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

  - Christopher Alexander
  

• ‟ I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

  - Christopher Alexander