"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

August 2026

Christopher Alexander was born in Vienna in 1936, to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, and left with his family for England after the Anschluss in March 1938 (which is a fancy name for when Hitler annexed unwilling Austria to Germany). He read mathematics...