We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
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There is central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.Christopher Alexander
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.
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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.
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