A Pattern Language Quotes

“fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also 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 W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world, only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“towns and buildings will not be able to become alive, unless they are made by all the people in society, and unless these people share a common pattern language, within which to make these buildings, and unless this common pattern language is alive itself.”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“...when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also 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.”
― Sara Ishikawa, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“...towns and buildings will not be able to become alive, unless they are made by all the people in society...”
― Sara Ishikawa, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“light on two sides” was a tenet of the old Beaux Arts design tradition.)”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less of a community than your home.”
― Sara Ishikawa, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“from an estimate of the global population in the year 2000, which is anticipated to rise to the 10,000 million mark, I suggest that we should be thinking in terms of an ideal regional state at something around ten million, or between five and fifteen million, to give greater flexibility. This would furnish the U.N. with an assembly of equals of 1000 regional representatives: a body that would be justified in claiming to be truly representative of the world’s population.”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction