One of the two main points of my essay on Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Langauge and The Phenomenon of Life is that Alexander’s thinking has been wrongly neglected by thoughtful academics and practitioners in the last 20 years. Alexander’s major contribution has been to articulate, in rich, profuse, and convincing detail, the relationship between the design of buildings, streets, towns, and regions with the quality of life which that design fosters.
Although I believe (and he does not) that there are other important reasons to value architecture, we agree that its embodying and encouraging “maximum aliveness” is its highest calling. It was therefore painful to discover that his new book does not, as I see it, serve this cause.
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