ybooks Read

Books

The Timeless Way of Building

Christopher Alexander · 1979

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Josh Puckett recommends it
The Timeless Way of Building/A Pattern Language (advanced)

on X · 4 Oct 2026 · Report

Nabeel S. Qureshi loved it

On his Favourite Books page, "an arbitrary subset of some of the best books I've read", listed as "The Timeless Way of Building (1979)".

on nabeelqu.co · Report

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.