Quote by Christopher Alexander
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old,

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. – Christopher Alexander

Other quotes by Christopher Alexander

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I dont mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power… stuff thats very close to us. – Christopher Alexander

Category:
Dreams
Read Quote

The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling. – Christopher Alexander

Category:
Nature
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Home
category

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. – Casey Stengel

Category:
Home

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life. – Lionel Blue

Category:
Home

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. – Andrew Vachss

Category:
Home

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. – Roald Dahl

Category:
Home

Random Quotes

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say thats amazing, or if Id make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing. – David Blaine

Category:
amazing

Each year, I say Im going to go to school next year. Its inevitable that Ill end up getting my education. – Eliza Dushku

Category:
Education

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay – by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes. – Angela Merkel

Category:
Sports

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Water