Living spaces fit naturally with their defining events and dead spaces force events unnaturally.Ī living space might be a courtyard between the street and the front door, a space that you would cross naturally many times over a given day, making it feel lived in and familiar: a space you incorporate into living. This is further developed into the idea of spaces which are either alive or dead. Shaped by eventsīuilding and towns are defined best not by the materials they are constructed from, or the building codes that regulate them, but rather by the events that occur within. Habits more tightly to what we create to enable them, and a reminder that the tools we build shape folks lives in real, profound ways. What I took away from my read is a renewed focus on incorporating folks’ needs and Stylistically the book ventured a bit too far into mysticism and gnostic wisdom for my taste-almost reminiscent of reading the Tao Te Ching at times-but it was an interesting read, particularly in its context as a foundational text. I hadn’t heard of it before, and as I started poking around I realized that this was the second of a series of three books, and recommendations generally pointed me to start instead with The Timeless Way of Building.ĭelving a bit further into the context surrounding these books, I was surprised to learn that in addition to being an influential work on architecture, the genesis of the software design patterns community was from Alexander’s works as well. Some months ago, a friend recommended Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |