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-===== The Timeless Way of Building =====
+===== The Timeless Way of Building — Christopher Alexander=====
 by Christopher Alexander 1979 ISBN 0-19-502248-3
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 There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
-The quality of places is never twice the same,  because it always takes its shape from the particular  place in which it occurs.  It is not simple beauty of form and color. Man can make that without making nature. Is is not only fitness to purpose. Man can make that too, without making nature. And it is not only the spiritual quality of beautifull  music or a quiet mosque, that comes from faith. Man can make that too, without making nature. The quality which has no name  includes  these simpler sweeter qualities. But it is so ordinary as well, that it somehow reminds of of the passing of our life. It is a slightlly bitter quality.
+The quality of places is never twice the same,  because it always takes its shape from the particular  place in which it occurs.  It is not simple beauty of form and color. Man can make that without making nature. It is not only fitness to purpose. Man can make that too, without making nature. And it is not only the spiritual quality of beautiful  music or a quiet mosque, that comes from faith. Man can make that too, without making nature. The quality which has no name  includes  these simpler sweeter qualities. But it is so ordinary as well, that it somehow reminds of the passing of our life. It is a slightly bitter quality.