{"product_id":"the-timeless-way-of-building-9780195024029","title":"The Timeless Way of Building","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666026455093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195024028","price":59.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195024029.jpg?v=1782415716","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-timeless-way-of-building-9780195024029","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}