The Timeless Way of Building – Chapter 17: The Archetypal Core

01/01/1973

Book Early Version, Partial Manuscript

102 pages focused on “The Gate” concepts of the book, with a first section without a chapter reference, preceding the chapter 17 discussion. A typewritten draft on the discussion of core concepts related to creating a living pattern language, containing corrections in pencil.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

The Timeless Way of Building 01/01/1979

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

“The Timeless Way of Building” is the opening work in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press. Here Alexander introduces the ideas behind the succeeding books. The book lays the foundation of the series. It ...

References

Scientific Research

Theory of Patterns and Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Patterns and Pattern Languages

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 ...
The Quality without a Name

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

The Quality Without a Name

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 ...