The Environment; summary of a work in progress, with Editor’s Note by Sasha Illich

In 'The Timeless Way of Building' Christopher Alexander postulates that the quality in buildings cannot by made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people. He asserts that people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done ...

Christopher Alexander's research for a central quality which he named "the quality without a name", was a search for those attributes and circumstances which give life to events, relationships, buildings and spaces. It set the foundation for identifying the patterns ...

“A Pattern Language” is the second volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to ...

Series of workshops taught at Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC), a higher education campus founded by Ivan Illich. CES was invited to participate in the school activities; the contact was made by UCB professor Roslyn Lindheim, a friend of Ivan ...