Christopher Alexander People Quotations

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings were judged more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.