The Timeless Way of Building

The book for this month’s IndieWeb Book Club, hosted by Nick, is Christopher Alexander’s book The Timeless Way of Building. The book is about architecture, but its principles have broader application to any discipline involved with building something. The idea of a “pattern language”, discussed throughout the book, is one that has stuck with me. I was thinking about “patterns” before reading the book, but The Timeless Way of Building put the idea of a pattern into perspective: Your language...