{"id":11,"date":"2004-07-31T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-08-02T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:20:07","slug":"christopher-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started reading Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order<\/a>,
\nin which the architect\/philosopher describes his ideas about what makes
\na (building | place | town | anything) alive<\/i> in a real sense. I have found it
\nto be very illuminating, and in particular it has helped me understand why I very
\nmuch like some<\/a> of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, but not others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alexander is the founder of the “pattern” concept in architecture, which has gone on to
\nbe used (or misused) in software development, design processes, and even dating. He
\nhas catalogued dozens of patterns that may be used to solve a particular problem, in
\nsuch a way that has been found to enhance the “living” nature of the place. For example,
\nthe pattern “ROOMS LIT ON TWO SIDES”, Alexander observes that you should design
\nrooms so that at least two sides have light coming in, to accomodate the movement of the
\nsun and avoid having the room too dark at any one time of the day.<\/p>\n

In one of his earlier works, The Timeless Way of Building<\/em>, Alexander
\ntalks about “The Quality That Has No Name”, that refers to any building or place,
\nin which you feel more alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Started reading Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order, in which the architect\/philosopher describes his ideas about what makes a (building | place | town | anything) alive in a real sense. I have found it to be very illuminating, and in particular it has helped me understand why I very much like some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, but not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-and-philosophy","category-essays","category-our-utah-house","category-rooms-and-designs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}