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The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander

ISBN 9780195024029

About This Book

This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.

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The philosophical companion to A Pattern Language. Alexander's argument for 'a quality without a name' — the living, whole, comfortable, exact, egoless quality that the best buildings possess.

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