Lived experience tells me that Christopher Alexander’s book A Pattern Language is wonderfully significant. He and others have put together over 250 patterns that go into creating Urban, town and home spaces that have the nature to support us in not only physical, but sensed feeling. Written in the 1970’s it carries true awareness of how living structures can be built in a way that adds to our experience at home and in public spaces through design and construction. For me this way of planning and building is a valuable link to the paintings from Invisible Cities. Recently a new property with a shack, has come into my life and will provide me with the exciting creative challenge of building a new home! Simply put “..whatever you do, make sure it has inner beauty…You can change everything in this way….It comes from the heart 心から来る Kokorokar”
