" ... participatory, emotional, and adaptive ... " nytimes.com/2022/03/29/art…

How do you discover principles of quality? "... Chris realised that the smallest hint of unease about an idea might be the sign of something important." theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Yes, but it's not too late. I once wondered if people still had the capacity to coöperate, to be sensitive to nature and each other. Chris said -- well, our species hasn't changed, so everyone still has those abilities within them. They're just distracted.

Those interested in looking into the evolution of Christopher Alexander's thought, should check out our huge resource page at beautiful.software ... including articles going back to 1959. The beautiful software initiative is actively continuing his computing research.

"It got to the point where architects thought they could completely dismiss popular opinion. I mean, some architects. The high modernists. We’re talking about the people in the turtlenecks." currentaffairs.org/2022/05/how-to…

To fix things, we need to figure out what's broken. We need a diagnosis. But how do we diagnose a place? We must ask ourselves, in the place, whether it has life, whether it helps us to become more alive. ... from a 1994 chat with Christopher Alexander. youtube.com/watch?v=2V4QYC…

Anyone interested in studying Christopher Alexander's living building process and 'The Nature of Order' while practicing it under his students and colleagues (computer people too, with an additional seminar on moving this material to computing) here's an opening:

Are you a community organizer interested in building beautiful, humane, ecologically-sensitive places? Are you a computer person interested in studying how Christopher Alexander's living process works, in its original context? Our open house is Friday!

Modern architecture may be sleek and intellectual but much of it makes people feel dead inside. It doesn’t have to be that way as we speed toward the #metaverse (By Tim Gorichanaz of Drexel College of Computing & Informatics) bit.ly/3dl4pga

Anyone who's seriously interested in studying the work and practicing the approach of Christopher Alexander, with a growing transnational community of his students, colleagues, and friends, can join us this year at buildingbeauty.org ...

“The great thing about Building Beauty is that it leads to the creation of tangible things that everyone can do… One of Chris’ goals was to empower people to be able to do things for themselves… teaching them the abilities required to do something good.”

The 29th PLoP 2022 conference continues! See our exciting program, incl. the panel "Design Patterns, then & now" with Ward Cunningham, Brian Foote, Joseph Yoder and @[email protected] Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, and the talk "Technology Last: Christopher Alexander's approach to software development" by Greg Bryant

The Christopher Alexander & Center for Environmental Structure Archive gives access to 50+ years of work by Alexander/CES, sharing ideas and projects to inspire all who wish to build and repair living environments in which people thrive. Visit at christopher-alexander-ces-archive.org.

A new lecture by architect Christopher Alexander from 1995, shown for the first time. 90 minutes of philosophy in action, as he wrestles with complex issues on a real building site, and with questions from an audience of mostly students. youtube.com/watch?v=a8wPKs…

Nature of Order Webinar speakers for Spring term: buildingbeauty.org/news/2025/2/5/…

Market-rate developers & investors purposely, continually raise prices & rents -- and stop building when prices stabilize. So, increasing the market-rate supply does NOT make housing affordable: quite the opposite. At the same time, we're destroying livability, and nature.