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For Alexander, great buildings are “timeless” because they seem to reach into eternity, reminding men that they have a higher home.

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.

Niall Patrick Walsh explains how multiple fatal fires earlier this year (in the Bronx and Philadelphia) are but the latest examples in an ongoing national failure

Icon interviewed Will Wright, veteran computer games designer and the creator of SimCity and The Sims, for our February issue. Here is the full transcript of that interview, which appeared in the magazine in condensed form.

In a house with two doors (a front door and a kitchen door), the kitchen door is usually the one that gets the most use. This is a very common pattern in American single family homes: the front door is a formal entrance and opens into the living and dining room, and the back door/garage door tends to open nearer to the kitchen. This was how it was in my house growing up, and in my most recent group house as well.

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

Transit systems aren’t built for a work-from-home world. Chemicals from car tires are killing fish. Transit and affordable housing aren’t linking up.

The author of "A Pattern Language" and "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" had an outsize influence far beyond architecture and urbanism—and still does.