Knowledge-base Map: The Timeless Way of Building

• The Timeless Way of Building: book profile and conceptual summary: profile, thesis, chapter structure and line of argument.
• Concepts and Critical Questions: important distinctions, extreme generalisations and items needing fact-checking.
• Concept Matrix and Chapter Tracing: a guide back to the chapters and pages of the English edition.

Independent concepts

• The Timeless Way
• The Quality Without a Name
• Alive, Whole, Comfortable, Free, Exact, Egoless, Eternal
• Self-Supporting Quality
• Patterns of Events
• Patterns of Space
• Multiplicity of Living Patterns
• Character of Nature vs. Modular Construction
• Consciousness of Death and Transitoriness
• Pattern Language
• The Breakdown of Language
• The Structure of a Language
• Evolution of a Common Language
• Differentiating Space
• One Pattern at a Time
• Shaping a Group of Buildings
• The Process of Construction
• The Process of Repair
• The Slow Emergence of a Town
• Its Ageless Character
• Egolessness