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The timeless way of building / (Record no. 15142)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number	76042650
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN	0195024028 :
Terms of availability	$19.50
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Item number	.A45
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	720.1 ALE
Item number	21479
Edition information	23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Alexander, Christopher,
Dates associated with a name	1936-
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The timeless way of building /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Christopher Alexander.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	1979.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xv, 552 p. :
Other physical details	ill. ;
Dimensions	21 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. "The Timeless Way of Building" is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series. Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being. Alexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building". It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	Architecture.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	permaculture
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	city planning
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	Pattern perception.
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06/04/2025	1	1	720.1 ALE	21479	12/03/2024	10/08/2024	Book		Dewey Decimal Classification			Architecture		Marium Abdulla Library	Marium Abdulla Library	Non-Ref	10/04/2024	Sara Jamil	13171.00

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