An Exploration Of Architectural Philosophy In The Timeless Way Of Building By Alexander

The research on philosophy of science is experiencing a deep shift from theoretical observation and philosophical analysis to practical field and situational knowledge,and the practical cases and philosophical samples that meet this trend become the research requirements of philosophy of science,philosophy of technology and philosophy of engineering.Famous American architectural theorists Christopher Alexander,a series of theoretical work and practice offers records is a classic case in this regard and samples,which itself in the history of the building since the middle of the 20 th century occupies an important position,and in the field of architecture as the philosophy of science and philosophy of engineering practicality,situational study provides valuable thought resources and paradigm.Among them,“TheTimelessWayOfBuilding” has concentrated the essence of its architectural theory and ideas.Its profound human care,careful professional insight,wide and free academic thoughts,and universal and operable design language have made it the most important text to explore architectural philosophy issues.Firstly,the paper tries to understand the architectural philosophy in the context of philosophy of science,philosophy of engineering and philosophy of technology,and expounds the relationship between the core categories of science,technology,engineering,design,space and engineering.Secondly,the text interpretation of Alexander's “The Timeless Way Of Building” will analyze the three important concepts proposed in the text-nameless trait,pattern language and the timeless way,so as to grasp and understand the architectural significance of the text itself.It is found that Alexander's “The Timeless Way Of Building”not only originates from people's perceptual experience and emotional experience in space,but also has the operability of design language and public participation based on natural expression of human nature.Fourth,to clarify these architectural thought on significance of philosophical issue system,the relationship between them should be brought into the scope of phenomenology horizon,use technology and sexual relationship with phenomenological hermeneutics,the relationship between the formula to be summed up as "(human-experience)-space",and "public-(pattern language-architecture)".Through the analysis of Alexander's architectural philosophy thought in The Timeless Way Of Building,this paper makes an exemplary exploration work in order to extract a set of architectural philosophy system which is close to practical experience,suitable for architectural theory and has scientific philosophical context.