The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback or Cased Book)

Alexander, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0195024028 / ISBN 13: 9780195024029

Published by Oxford University Press, USA 8/23/1979, 1979

The Timeless Way of Building. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780195024029

Synopsis:

The first volume in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture

About the Author: Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive. Acting on his deeply-held conviction that, as a society, we must recover the means by which we can build and maintain healthy living environments, he has lived and worked in many cultures, and built buildings all over the world. Making neighborhoods, building-complexes, building, balustrades, columns, ceilings, windows, tiles, ornaments, models and mockups, paintings, furniture, castings and carvings--all this has been his passion, and is the cornerstone from which his paradigm-changing principles have been derived.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback or ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 8/23/1979
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
Condition: New
Book Type: Book