The Timeless Way of Building
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The Timeless Way of Building Details
Review "Excellent text for architectural theory and design--a must for design students."--Brad Grant, California Polytechnic State University Read more About the Author Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive.Acting on his deeply-held conviction that, as a society, we must recover the means by which we can build and maintain healthy living environments, he has lived and worked in many cultures, and built buildings all over the world.Making neighborhoods, building-complexes, building, balustrades, columns, ceilings, windows, tiles, ornaments, models and mockups, paintings, furniture, castings and carvings--all this has been his passion, and is the cornerstone from which his paradigm-changing principles have been derived. Read more
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This is the most significant book on architecture. Christopher Alexander has written a number of books. This is the theory text. It provides enough explained theory for a person to "practice" the "timeless way of building", vernacular architecture. I know it "works" from my experience as a practicing architect and as a professor of architecture. The companion book is "A Pattern Language." Without the theory the patterns in this book will be of extremely limited value.
