VII: The Living Room: A Place for Formality
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Over the next several weeks I will post a series using the writings of Christopher Alexander to take a thoughtful tour through a house, room by room. We thereby can take concrete steps in shaping our house into a home. In view of Alexander’s insight into the connection between ‘architecture’ and action, we can look at the various rooms in our house, and consider two things: first, what actions do we most want to foster in this room, and second, does the very structure of this room in fact foster such action.
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This does not require great financial resources it does require attention to what patterns of living we want to foster, and how to foster them. And likewise, a room can be well-designed and arranged so as to encourage such a pattern of behavior. Such a pattern of behavior, we might say, gives life to a room.
Likewise, the physical structure of a space–and this includes everything from size of the room, furniture arrangement, window placement, color schemes, and much more–will affect the quality of actions in that space.Īlexander paints a picture of a ‘living pattern’: “And what of a party around a kitchen table, people drinking together, cooking together, drinking wine, eating grapes, together preparing a stew of beef and wine and garlic and tomatoes which takes four hours to cook–and while it cooks, we drink, and then, at last we eat it.” How we live in a certain space, the patterns of our actions, will affect the physical structure of that space.
It is also where each of us must find a space congenial to every-day life.Ī house is where humans live a home is where they truly come alive.Ĭhristoper Alexander, an architect, is keenly aware of the deep connection between patterns in space and patterns of living. In this sense, it plays the fundamental role in making sure that just this pattern of events keeps on repeating over and over again, throughout the space…”Ĭhristopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of BuildingĪ home is not only where the next generation is initiated into human life. For the pattern in the space is, precisely, the precondition, the requirement, which allows the pattern of events to happen. “Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there… The more living patterns there are in a place-a room, a building, or a town-the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire…īut there is a fundamental inner connection between each pattern of events, and the pattern of space in which it happens.
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