For us this photo is a fantastic example, meeting some of Christopher Alexander’s ideas (and his efforts to expose them).
In a certain way the photo also remembers us another author: Gordon Cullen even if he was not particularly focused in linguistic approaches. Nor in «the Nature» that may exist, somewhere (?), in the roots of architectural forms as Christopher Alexander asserts**.
*Quoting Christopher Alexander, in The Nature of Order, An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. The Center of Environmental Structure, Berkeley California 2002, p. 2.
**And we agree. Another Thank You to Cristina Pinheiro: the proof that Nature, Tradition and Old Knowledge have an enormous richness that one must teach.
With models like Christopher Alexander and all his books (we have no time to read, entirely…), one does not resign!