Tag: Timeless
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Feeling the Timeless
I’m sitting next to a fireplace on Christmas Eve, a time to reflect. I notice that there must have been quite some effort to install the iron fireplace and its chimney into the wall. I’m reminded that Klaus did that. Klaus was one of Dad’s best friends and now I’m staying in the flat that…
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A Lasting Quality
“If you want to preserve a building, you will try to make it in materials which last and last forever. You will try to make sure that this creation can be preserved intact, in just its present state, forever. Canvas must be ruled out because it has to be replaced; tiles must be so hard…
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More useful as a shipwreck!
Evidently a lot of shipwrecks are being salvaged in order to reuse the metal for high specification technology. The metal in these wrecks are uncontaminated by the atmospheric radiation since 1945 so they’re highly prized and necessary. It blows my mind to think that this lead was mined by Romans. Incidentally a few days ago,…
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The Joy of Sharing
Recently a colleague and shared a post about a book, The Timeless Way of Building’ that I had recommended to him. I was delighted to see him with the same joy I felt. I was prompted to write the following: I cannot think of anything more joyful than stumbling across something new and wonderful, then…
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The Bitter Feeling about Timeless Places
One of the qualities about something being ‘timeless’ is that it is slightly bitter – so says Christopher Alexander in his book, ‘The Timeless Way of Building’. I wondered what he meant by that – I found it peculiar especially since many of the other qualities seemed understandable (alive, comfortable, free, exact, etc). But I…
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Inefficiency, optimization & timelessness
I sent a question out to Tobias Mayer and he kindly responded: Q. The best things in life are all inefficient. How do you reconcile inefficiency and ‘optimization / lean / agile’ in your life and maybe even commercial work? And to what end? I haven’t really figured it out but found a clue in…