Christopher Alexander Quotes About Design

• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

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• Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

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  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press

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• We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

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  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

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