The Timeless Way of Building (Center for Environmental Structure Series) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Timeless Way of Building 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 l...
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 10 April 1980
- Format: Hardback 568 pages
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- Categories: Architecture | Theory Of Architecture | City & Town Planning - Architectural Aspects
- ISBN 13: 9780195024029 ISBN 10: 0195024028
- Sales rank: 36,756
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Full description for The Timeless Way of Building
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.
