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Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander
Born: Oct 4, 1936

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