People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness. Christopher Alexander More Quotes by Christopher Alexander More Quotes From Christopher Alexander This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. Christopher Alexander view you nature world We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole. Christopher Alexander balance kind perfect order A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. Christopher Alexander nothing will building way Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them. Christopher Alexander unique power reality people Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about. Christopher Alexander feeling start you vision
