Quotes by Christopher Alexander

• We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
• Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
• The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
• Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.