An Attempt to Derive the Nature of a Human Building System from First Principles

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 ...