Category: Nature Of Order Book 1
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Christopher Alexander – A Freedom Inducing World
… an environment which goes as far as possible in allowing people’s tendencies, their inner forces, to run loose, so that they can take care, by themselves, of their own development … it depends in part on … configurations … which remove energy-wasting conflict from the environment … release human effort for more challenging tasks,…
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Christopher Alexander – The Stress Reservoir
Broadly speaking, the reaction to each unsolved problem, or annoyance, or conflict that is encountered creates in the individual some level of stress … There is, in effect, a stress reservoir in the body …
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Christopher Alexander – A Universal Personal
… from the point of view of the world picture in this book, ‘personal’ is a profound objective quality which inheres in something, It is not idiosyncratic but universal. It refers to something true and fundamental in a thing itself.
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Christopher Alexander – The Character of Living Structure
In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness … creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.
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Christopher Alexander – The Fifteen Properties in Nature
I chose to do a brief summary of this section, giving preference to the wholeness of the theme of the properties in nature (over giving more attention to each property). It was a journey, first reading through it, not knowing how/what to extract. By the time I read through, certain excerpts popped out of the…
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Christopher Alexander – The Family of Living Systems
the fifteen properties define the enormous family of systems, among all possible systems, which have life in them
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Christopher Alexander – Fundamental Property 15: Not-Separateness
The correct connection to the world will only be made if you are conscious, willing, that the thing you make be indistinguishable from its surroundings, that, truly, you cannot tell where one ends and the next begins, and you do not even want to be able to do so
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Christopher Alexander – Fundamental Property 14: Simplicity and Inner Calm
It has to do with a certain slowness, majesty, quietness, which I think of as inner calm … The quality comes about when everything unnecessary is removed
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Christopher Alexander – Fundamental Property 13: The Void
This emptiness is needed, in some form, by every center … It is the quiet that draws the center’s energy of itself, gives it the basis of its strength
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Christopher Alexander – Fundamental Property 12: Echoes
there is a deep underlying similarity – a family resemblance – among the elements, so deep that everything seems to be related, and yet one doesn’t quite know why, or what causes it. That is what I mean by ‘echoes.’
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Christopher Alexander – Fundamental Property 11: Roughness
The seemingly rough arrangement is more precise because it comes from a much more careful guarding of the essential centers in the design … Roughness can never be consciously or deliberately created. Then it is merely contrived. To make a thing live, its roughness must be the product of egolessness, the product of no will…
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Christopher Alexander – Fundamental Property 10: Gradients
“… Gradients must arise in the world when the world is in harmony with itself simply because conditions vary. Qualities vary, so centers which are adapted to them respond by varying in size, spacing, intensity and character. Daylight varies from the top floor of an urban building to the bottom floor: both windows and ceiling…