Christopher Alexander Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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

  Men, Names, Roots

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.9, New York : Oxford University Press

• 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

  Fire, Self, Names

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.10, New York : Oxford University Press

• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

  Christopher Alexander

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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