The architecture-industrial complex also conditioned the general public to reject the QWAN as irrelevant, nostalgic, and silly. And it was not a natural extinction, but an aggression: dominant architectural culture wiped out the genetic material of adaptive architecture contained in traditional design patterns. Breaking with convention by not discussing design formalism and ideology, he always focuses on how to achieve a space or structure that gives a positive and profound feeling to the user. The wonderfully adaptive patterns Alexander described in all his books had become extinct by the time he published his results. Whenever such a pattern-rich environment succeeds in connecting to the user, people sense the QWAN-“The Quality Without A Name.” Perceiving the QWAN allows one to judge the design’s level of adaptation to human feelings.īut there remain serious unsolved problems. These common elements of configurations, paths, and spaces work well to provide an emotionally comfortable environment. At the same time, his model validated millennia of traditional building activity, making it newly relevant for construction today. Christopher Alexander introduced an astonishingly novel way of thinking about architecture.
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