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 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

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
Other Quotes from
Home
category

Snowboardings tough, because youve got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I dont have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding. – Shaun White

Category:
Home

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasnt the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror. – Susan Orlean

Category:
Home

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night. – Gabrielle Union

Category:
Home

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Home

Random Quotes

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. – Pete Townshend

Category:
Music

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nations interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nations interest. – George W. Bush

Category:
power

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. – America Ferrera

Category:
famous