Christopher Alexander (b. 1936, Vienna) is a revolutionary architect, designer, and philosopher most famous for his book “A Pattern Language” (1977) in which he – together with his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley – outlined timeless “patterns” for building neighborhoods, houses, apartments, and rooms. The basic premise of all Alexander’s work [...]

Here’s a little something on a very interesting Knight Foundation project called “Soul of the Community”. The project is a collaboration with Gallup to try and understand why people love their home towns and thereby isolate which factors are of greatest impact. Their results are surprising, to say the least. In short, the surveys [...]