The timeless way to build

In The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander set out to answer the following question: What is it that makes a building simultaneously adapted to its function and its environment, that allows the emergence of life inside and outside of it, and that it continues to maintain these qualities through las generations and las cultures? For the author, the secret lies in a "nameless quality" that is the result of the historical and social experience of the environment, and of the direct application of certain muy simple precepts.