christopher alexander
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entry 28. – on quality, 02
to be honest, i have been trying to bring out this piece, the second of my writings titled “on quality,” for a long time now, but i could never quite settle into it. what pushed me to write it was an encounter that happened before i had even read pirsig. the concept of quality i…
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entry 21. – the timeless way of building*
*Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. I’ve been exploring connections between worldbuilding and architecture as a way to imagine what could be. Worldbuilding has developed particular ways of thinking about creation and emergence. I’m curious whether those ways of thinking could enrich architectural practice. To gain a perspective,…
a bag of holding 