Good article! I love Christopher Alexander's work and I would never have found it, if it were not reposted over the years. The key concept in The Timeless Way

Good article! I love Christopher Alexander's work and I would never have found it, if it were not reposted over the years. The key concept in The Timeless Way is the idea of a pattern language. This is a collection of patterns that is ordered and can be followed to produce a design with the quality without a name. Pattern languages are not static though. It always strikes me as odd the author's perception of the Pattern Language as being changeable. The most intense benefit of the Pattern Language, and the title of the book, is that it's Timeless. It doesn't change. Sure you can fill it with different variables, which is what the author means when he says it's not static. But it really is a static language-based attempt at capturing perfect form and life in buildings. We'll always forget and re-discover what he wrote about, but chaining oneself to one particular structural language will calcify over time, unfortunately.