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Encyclopedia > A Timeless Way of Building

The Timeless Way of Building is a book that ties life and architecture together, written by Christopher Alexander.


It is considered by many to be one of the major and seminal texts, that generate new texts and start movements. It could be classified as the Estonian researcher of the Orient Linnart Mäll calls them: the humanistic base texts.


This book popularised the concept of the pattern language. It can be noted that Wiki has itself grown out of the pattern language movement that has spread to many disciplines.


The other two books in the series are:

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The Timeless Way of Building
  • PatternLanguage.com (http://patternlanguage.com/)
  • The Nature of Order series (http://natureoforder.com/)
  • Article: New Concepts in Complex Theory. May 2003. (http://natureoforder.com/library/scientific-introduction.pdf)



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The Timeless Way of Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (328 words)
The Timeless Way of Building is a 1979 book that ties life and architecture together, written by Christopher Alexander.
Alexander uses the technique of surrounding it with existing concepts that reflect a part of the quality with no name but are not sufficient to define it individually.
One central concept in The Timeless Way of Building is that of creative unfolding.
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