Last month, the architect and author Christopher Alexander received the Vincent Scully Prize, given annually by the National Building Museum “to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism ...

The timeless way -- The quality without a name -- Being alive -- Patterns of events -- Patterns of space -- Patterns which are alive -- The multiplicity of living patterns -- The quality itself -- The ...

What to do about Christopher Alexander? A beautiful storyteller, a beautiful writer, and a beautiful thinker, as anyone who has dipped into A Pattern Language, his fabled grammar of everyday life and ...

Companion volume to The timeless way of building and The Oregon experiment.

Christopher Alexander was an architectural populist. The architect, who died in March at 85, denounced his profession’s establishment and championed the intuitions of amateurs. In a famous 1982 debate ...