Christopher Alexander "Nature of Order", "Pattern Language", "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" It's impossible to summarize his work (the above are his most fam

Christopher Alexander "Nature of Order", "Pattern Language", "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" It's impossible to summarize his work (the above are his most famous books, in reverse chronological order) but the essence of his idea is that space itself is the "luminous ground of being" and our architecture can conduce or block the essential selfness... I'm doing a terrible job of describing it... sorry.