Christopher Alexander Quotes
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
- Christopher Alexander
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
- Christopher Alexander
