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Architect Christopher Alexander’s work will continue to be important not only for designing buildings but also in light of contemporary debates about how data always comes from specific settings.

Christopher Alexander, the British-American architect, educator, and theorist whose writings on human-centered design had an outsized impact not only on

A fierce anti-modernist, he championed vernacular structures, becoming a counterculture hero to many, from New Urbanists to software designers to Prince Charles.

Architect and theorist who believed in creating human-centred buildings, drawing on new technology and ancient traditions

Kitchen sponge used in your very own kitchen is found to be a better incubator for bacterial diversity than a laboratory Petri dish.

The Laws of Settlements book available for free online! Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that drove me to write The Laws of Settlements and continues to propel my research on landscape—a term that I use to describe the complex and continuous dialogue between people and non-human natural systems.  It was a question that I thought—and continue to believe—belongs to everybody: one whose answer is ...