Excerpted from Alexander's 2005 interview with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about his four-volume tome, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
The experience of space, especially when encountering it in a "sequence of episodes" is an aspect of architecture that is too often ignored. This may be because many people grow up in environments that lack that aesthetic consideration and become desensitized. Hence the constant need for some kind of "escape," (e.g. daugmented reality games or just mindless entertainment via television or the internet. Additive wholes made of intentionally designed elements is an entirely different universe.
@Koraamis OK. Thanks very much for that. That's a clear explanation. I get it now. Sort of a guide. Sure is an interesting book. I like urban planning ideas and 'patterns'. For example about how far a person will walk from their work to get lunch.
@@markcarey8426 The book title is a little bit abstract for the simplicity of the book. The book basically covers almost every topics, architects are faced with when designing, suchs as the placement of doors and windows, the dimension and order of rooms in a building, the layout of a living room - just to mention a few topics. Every of these topics is described in a chapter consisting of a few pages, in which he describes the ideal window or the ideal door and so on. And differently than many architects, his philosophy wasn't an abstract one, which no average human understands. His philosophy has simply the aim to make the person feel good. And this he tried to back up with evidence based studies. His thesis has stood the test of time. Buildings, which people consider good architecture, do almost consist of these patterns.
