I once saw a simple fish pond in a Japanese village which was perhaps eternal. A farmer made it for his farm. The pond was Continue Reading
architecture
A slightly bitter quality
It is not only simple beauty of form and color. Man can make that without making nature. It is not only fitness to purpose. Man Continue Reading
Architecture and the shadows of life
So that, after size and weight, the Power of architecture may be said to depend on the quantity (whether measured in space or intenseness) of Continue Reading
#251: Warm Colors
Pattern The greens and greys of hospitals and office corridors are depressing and cold. Natural wood, sunlight, bright colors are warm. In some way, the Continue Reading
#252: Pools of Light
Pattern Uniform illumination — the sweetheart of the lighting engineers — serves no useful purpose whatsoever. In fact, it destroys the social nature of space, Continue Reading
#253: Things from Your Life
(This is the start of a series in which I will be going through Christopher Alexander’s “Pattern Language” book in reverse order, from the smallest Continue Reading