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Imagination Is Not Creativity
some reflections on Chris Alexander's impact on me
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The Timeless Way of Building
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The Timeless Way of Building
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Exploring the ideas of Christopher Alexander
Katılım Kasım 2021
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I found it comforting he was out there,
in his body,
with his heart,
thinking his thoughts.
A guardian of the spirit of beauty, who preserved it with all of himself,
even as the world lost itself in ignorance.
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Use windows between rooms inside to connect spaces or liven up an area that's unusually dark.
A Pattern Language@apatterntolearn
194. Interior Windows Windows can be used to connect indoor spaces. Put in windows between rooms which tend to be unusually dark causing them to be dead and rarely used.
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Use the style you prefer, but
1. Limit buildings to 4 stories
2. Windows facing the street
3. Mix use spaces so neighbourhoods are dynamic
4. Prioritise pedestrians and cyclists over cars.
Will make cities healthier and more humane.
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1. Top-down planners rely on what is legible, can be measured and put into spread-sheets.
This ignores vast portions of reality.
2. Framing the issue as old vs new architecture is unhelpful.
The problem isn’t new-ness of designs,
but use of space and scale of buildings.
NeoTraditional Architecture Memes@VicctorianChad
Stop building ugly trash and instead re-embrace beauty in architecture. Then we can talk Otherwise i’m not stopping even if my life depends on it.
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@build_timeless I am more and more convinced that beauty is a kind of resonance, arising from definite geometrical configurations that are not assembled, but that grow - a perception of an intensity of life.
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Instead, Alexander focuses on our deeper humanity through his emphasis on Quality and Living Spaces.
He assumes
what helps us be fully human and feel alive,
must NECESSARILY be beautiful.
Beauty isn’t just something we see with our eyes,
but a wholeness we feel within.
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Timeless Beauty
Beauty for Alexander isn’t a matter of visual aesthetics,
a conception that often confuses novelty with beauty.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi
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Patterns.
Always repeating,
never the same.
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The ocean of shared feeling is the place where we become one with one another - this is the source, in the end, of our agreement about pattern languages.
- TWoB
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Even the fact that a pattern seems sensible, and has clear reasoning behind it, does not mean at all that the pattern is necessarily capable of generating life.
⁃TWoB
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The city and our consciousness as a collective must celebrate the ordinary.
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@build_timeless “A building, town, culture, will only be alive to the extent that it is governed
by the timeless way …
… a process which brings ORDER out of nothing but ourselves - cannot be attained - will happen of its own accord - if we will only let it”
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Going to San Francisco over Christmas & New Year’s.
Recommendations for places I should visit?
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