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The Timeless Way of Building

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Title: The Timeless Way of Building
Author: Christopher Alexander
ISBN: 9780195024029
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 552
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.

Now, at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.