Imagine a federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can ...

I was reading a book review the other day — an essay on poetry, by Elisa Gabbert, as it happens — and came across the name of someone I once knew, a fabulously eccentric cult figure of the old school.

Christopher Alexander, the Viennese-born professor, architect and theorist who believed that ordinary people, not just trained architects, should have a hand in designing their houses, neighborhoods ...

Companion volume to The timeless way of building and The Oregon experiment. siris_sil_96975 ...

As news spread in March of Christopher Alexander’s passing, I kept hearing a familiar story. On social media, architects of a certain age recounted catching their first glimpse of theory through ...