사건의 패턴들에 대한 크리스토퍼 알렉산더의 견해
Christopher Alexander on patterns of events:
In order to define this quality in buildings and in towns, we must begin by understanding that every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.1
Those of us who are concerned with buildings tend to forget too easily that all the life and soul of a place, all of our experiences there, depend not simply on the physical environment, but on the patterns of events which we experience there…. These patterns of events which create the character of a place are not necessarily human events.1
Compare the power and importance of these events with the other purely geometrical aspects of the environment, which architects concern themselves with.1
But although it is true that a unique event can sometimes change our lives completely, or leave its mark on us, it is not too much to say that, by and large, the overall character of our lives is given by those events which keep on recurring over and over again…. A building or a town is given its character, essentially, by those events which keep on happening there most often.1
But each town, each neighborhood, each building, has a particular set of these patterns of events according to its prevailing culture…. And indeed, the world does have a structure, just because these patterns of events which repeat themselves are always anchored in the space…. And the mere list of elements which are typical in a given town tells us the way of life of people there.1
This does not mean that space creates events, or that it causes them…. It simply means that a pattern of events cannot be separated from the space where it occurs…. And, in the same way, the patterns of events which govern life in buildings and in towns cannot be separated from the space where they occur.1 (see also Circularity of QWAN)
These patterns of events are always interlocked with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, as we shall see, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else: they are the atoms and the molecules from which a building or a town is made.2
See also
Footnotes
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Chapter 4 “Patterns of events”, The timeless way of building ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Chapter 5 “Patterns of space”, The timeless way of building ↩