Patterns

Alexanders asks what is recurring and what is stable. He reserves the term pattern to structures that prove as timeless, because they have an inherent quality of enhancing and supporting a wide range of activities. Alexanders interest as an architect is simply to find out what makes the quality of an environment that nurtures and channels human activites best. So he is also keen to look at phenomena of permanent retrieval, timeless proven solutions that we embrace again and again. His vigor is to understand the quality of such solutions, analyze what differs a good solution from a bad solution and create an understanding for the circumstances in which such solutions work and support each other. The emergence of capitalism brought about an interplay of patterns, //intellectual patterns// like modern math or experiment-based science or the university, //spiritual patterns// like a worldview that puts individual responsibility at the center, //relational patterns// like the territorial state replacing the personal dependency state, //conflict patterns// like the standing army, //economic patterns// like colonialism, urban trade centers, eventually factories, //technical patterns// like gunpowder warfare, steam engine, machine, and so on. []




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