How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander
The architect Christopher Alexander died recently. As the (surprisingly good) New York Times obituary described him:
[Alexander] believed that ordinary people, not just trained architects, should have a hand in designing their houses, neighborhoods and cities, and proposed a method for doing so in writing that could be poetically erudite, frustratingly abstract and breathtakingly simple... Mr. Alexander was a fierce anti-modernist who found traditional and indigenous structures — the beehive-shaped huts of North Africa, for example, or medieval Italian villages — more aesthetically pleasing…
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