garden/places for the soul.md

places for the soul

• a documentary
  • about christopher alexander
  • go https://vimeo.com/ondemand/placesforthesoul
  • "life can't be produced from a drawing -- it can only be produced through a process"
  • the tokyo school was designed with "full participation from teachers and students". the person who drove the project (high school principal) found him through the oregon experiment.
  • homeless shelter
    • san jose
    • housing for independent people
    • small windows
    • trusses were a contentious point
      • very complex
      • introduced delays, which resulted in the shelter not being ready for winter
  • wholeness is the name of the quality here -- is it the same as the nameless quality in the timeless way of building?
    • (some people aren't driven by) "an all consuming desire to produce wholeness"
  • dead zones
    • "people over there look like they're in alphaville"
    • "absolute intent to destroy emotion"
  • aside
    • I wonder if alexander liked the voiceover, it sounds a bit robotic to me
    • I would totally go on a walking tour with christopher alexander