Current Students and Graduates
In keeping with the principles listed on the opening page of this website, we are building an international community that is undertaking an important investigation into how beauty can restore people, places, the earth, and the quality of lives.
The principles have been with us since the beginning of this endeavour and consciously guide the creation of this program. The strength of this community and the impact of the contribution it can make, depends on the mix and interweaving of people from different countries, cultures, backgrounds, educational experiences, passions, hopes and dreams. So, it is important that we get to know each other as each person works through the process of coming to a decision to formally apply for the program.
Experiencing what this community is, will inform the decision of each prospective student. As people get in touch with us to explore the program and how it can help them meet their personal and professional goals, we invite them to engage with each other and us. From each conversation, we learn more about how to develop the program in ways that support each prospective student.
On this page, you are briefly introduced to our community of students, present and past.
Class of 2017-2018
I am so grateful to everyone that made Building Beauty possible
and look forward to being part of it! It teaches what I always cared about and wanted to learn.
Ana, from Slovenia
I've read Christopher Alexander's work for years
To learn/practice APL, empirical principle/emotion-based beauty making that WORKS + transcends/corrects style.
Luis, from Puerto Rico
I'm thrilled to find people
who teach and care about what I have found most beautiful about architecture.
Saman, from Iran
I am interested in studying the beautiful cities of the past
..and how they can inspire us to build better cities today!
Alex, from the USA
Humbled and inspired to be a part of a diverse community
..of intergenerational learners, practitioners and educators.
Michelle, from South Africa
I've been looking for my people
..and it appears, to my surprise and delight, they are you.
Bryan, from the USA
There has to be an alternative way to think about built spaces
..than just as machines that serves quantifiable aspects. There’s so much more detail about and around us in simplicity and in simple forms.
Harsh, from India
CLASS OF 2018-2019
The idea of seeing a space through a different lens,
also the idea of breaking the wall of restrictions and Dreaming of possibilities without any fear…is achieved by Buiding Beauty.
Mohit, from India
I am in pursuit of understanding the concepts of beauty and wholeness
in a building, and also to create such experiences in urban areas.
Anushka, from India
Steward of Creation
Architectural engineer and natural builder seeking to grow in my understanding of how truly beautiful places are created in this world.
John, from the USA
I would like to be part of this program
and experience the art of making new and innovative things that can add to the beauty of a place.
Saakshi, from India
Building Beauty has
the methods of teaching and practical work I have been searching for.
Ishwari, from India
I feel it would be great if one knows exactly
what he is imagining and how it should evolve, and once it does, how it should grow.
Ankit, from India
CLASS OF 2020-2021
Through engaging with Alexander’s work
and this community, I look forward to deepening my feelings and intuitions towards wholeness so as to be able to design and build the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible.
Julian, from Brazil
I am seeking to get the best of both worlds,
building beauty and building thermal performance. I hope to develop a new concept that can be translated into algorithms.
Mayar, from Egypt
Whether designing physical spaces or digital environments,
we need to find ways to make the places we live in more natural, humane, and beautiful.
Stefan from London, UK
I am excited to take part
in exploring
the possibilities of construction driven by feeling and working to apply them in Texas.
Grace, from the USA
I’m interested in how Alexander’s work can be applied
both within the source code of software itself, and also how his ideas can be used to create software that helps individuals regain individual agency in society.
Gareth, from Wales, UK
I hope to grow my understanding of the process of creation
and connect with a diverse group of people from around the world. I have many dreams and I am excited to learn from people that share this passion of creation and beauty.
Morgan, from the USA
I have a passion to build
beautiful places for people to live and work.
Torooti, from Kenya
I feel at home with Alexander’s work
and now I get the opportunity to deepen my knowledge online. For me this is priceless.
Dagmar, from Texas and Mexico
I wish to expand my knowledge
in sustainable design to improve the quality of life in rural communities in Peru. It is important to continue Alexander’s work and pass it on to new generations.
Diana, from Peru
I wish to learn how to
build computer systems that are wholesome and make us feel alive. Can software help us heal the world?
Tomaz, from Sweden
I’m expecting to learn to apply Alexander’s methods
to both software and the physical world around me. My main goal is to spread beauty in all of its form in all the fields I can possibly impact.
Tigran, from Armenia
Let’s build a beautiful world together!
It’ll take all of us but maybe that’s what we’re here for.”
James, for the USA
CLASS OF 2024-2025
Let us create places
with wonder, reverence, and play that we may live in wonder, reverence, and play. Let our work honor our more-than-human surroundings and our ancestors, both hidden and revealed.
Zachary, from the United States
I am eager to learn more
about Christopher Alexander's methods and teachings in a community of people who, like myself, have also felt the need to stop and consider his work.
Lauren, from the United States
In 2013 I began to arrive
at a realization—place and commitment to place could be the final frontier for Africa's transformation. But it would take a certain language to build the continent's communities into places that advance human flourishing. That search for a shared language led me to Building Beauty.
JD, from Nigeria
Beauty in a space
is generated by small acts of unfolding, and doing this in community can be a sacred practice. Looking forward to unfolding beautiful spaces that support healing, creativity and vitality for those that inhabit them.
Heather, from the United States
Alexander’s work
shows us the way home.
Sam Leahy, from the United Kingdom
It’s the perfect time
in my life to explore the principles of The Nature of Order deeply. I find myself connecting to a piece of land that has been in my family for generations, and I believe that there is somewhere between the work I have been exploring in recent years and this piece of land, and what can happen there that the Building Beauty course will allow me to understand, formulate and inhabit.
Terry, from Ireland
I seek to be transformed
and I hope to begin to play a part in creating beauty where God shines through.
Chad, from the United States
I am grateful for the opportunity
to explore and participate in a course on Alexander's building process. It's fascinating to learn about the Nature of Order along with a community.
Fernando, from Mexico and the UK
I’ve long understood
something to be off kilter with how we're living our lives in modern society, but haven't been able to articulate the heart of it. The closest I've come is Christopher Alexander's works, and I'm thrilled to be able to study them closely with a group of like minded folks!
Catherine, from the United States
I want to become myself
by working to reveal Truth, Love, and Beauty. I believe Building Beauty is a path to do this.
Matthew, from the United States
I experience a strong connection
and allegiance to the underlying message I find in all of Alexander’s work. His vision to restore the world and his mission to make others understand it is something that I find truly courageous and inspiring. I believe his work is an example from which we can all learn - and can build upon in our own ways. I am grateful to be a part of BB and I’m eager to learn more.
Mick, from the Netherlands
CLASS OF 2023-2024
The battle for beauty
begins with making a house a “home.”
Hera, from India
Christopher Alexander
had so many great ideas, but I have never had enough people around for discussing and learning about them. So excited after finding this community and for an opportunity to start putting these ideas into practice.
Einar, from Polland
Here at last
is a way of building that corresponds with the human heart!
Will, from the United States
I am really excited
to join the community of people getting together to understand and implement the work of Christopher Alexander.
Katya, from the United States
Building Beauty is
the restoration of hope in our challenging times for our progress towards a brighter future.
Chad, from the United States
I come with great
uncertainty. What can I do if I want to change this world but realise that the chances are vanishingly small? In this community I hope to learn (how) to make a difference.
Joschka, from Germany
I am eager to explore
this fascinating body of work and apply it to transforming professional workplaces.
Adam, from the United States
I want to live in a world
where we are nurtured, enlivened and inspired by our surroundings. I think Christopher Alexander's work provides an approach to such a dream.
Peter, from the United States
I'm grateful for the opportunity
to explore and participate in a course on Alexander's building process. It's fascinating to learn about the Nature of Order along with a community.
Fernando, from Mexico and the UK
Building beauty
is my practice of devotion and attention.
Goeun, from the United States
Looking for a new way
to see the spaces around us. Excited to join a community exploring and applying Alexander's ideas.
Greg, from the United Kingdom
I have always known
that there is far more to this world than randomness. Beauty is a real thing.
Raza, from the United States
With my passion
for the built environment fueling my journey, I'm eager to collaborate and learn to craft spaces that resonate with thoughtfulness and beauty.
June, from the United States
I’ve heard that the self
can be discovered by its' relationships. Christopher’s work was all about discovering environments that can support those relations. I hope I could deepen my understanding here.
Anton, from the Ukraine and the United States
Our structures
probably shouldn’t look and feel like machines.
Adam, from Canada
Alexander’s work
shows us the way home.
Sam Leahy, from the United Kingdom
CLASS OF 2022-2023
Is there an ideal environment
for a human being? What should it feel like? What should it do? In such a place, who would we become? I can think of nothing more important, or more interesting, than creating vibrant spaces that enchant and connect us.
Jenna, from the United States
Building Beauty is about more than designing pretty places.
For me it is about reintegrating our buffered selves and fractured communities through the brilliant, uniting power of beauty.
Zachary, from Australia
Building beauty, recognizing beauty,
and walking in beauty with friends! Music to my ears! Through design, I would love to deepen my understanding of wholeness, harmony, and reciprocity with other humans and non-humans, and with the living and non-living elements that make a whole together.
Maryam, from the United Kingdom
To hone my sense
of beauty and deep time. To learn, in community, slower and more sustainable ways of building and making. To create spaces—both real and in my writing—that spark the soul.
Jack, from the United States
Christopher Alexander had so many great ideas,
but I have never had enough people around for discussing and learning about them. So excited after finding this community and for an opportunity to start putting these ideas into practice.
Einar, from Estonia
Building Beauty is rediscovering
and reintroducing students to the knowledge of how to create beautiful places that will be treasured by generations and where people and communities will flourish. This is the education I have been searching for!
Lucy, from Australia
Healing oneself is not only doing the inner work,
but also living in alignment with surroundings. I want to learn how to be in alignment with all physical existence and spaces in a way that is beautiful and coherent, to heal, grow and serve myself and others, through this stepping stone of the Building Beauty course.
Abhi, from the United States
How can we design
the physical and digital environments we inhabit to feel more natural, more beautiful, more humane?
Stefan, from the United Kingdom
I am thrilled to be joining the building beauty program.
We are in desperate need for a paradigm shift; from an architecture of spectacle to an architecture that is alive and soul-nourishing. I believe that The Nature of Order will guide us in achieving that.
Sana, from Turkey
As a lay practitioner of the art of making wholeness in the world,
I am eager and grateful to have found a welcome home for my passion. I am committed to making this world a beautiful place to be. Beautiful in all regards.
Emiliano, from the United States
Making expressions of love
and beauty in order to feel oneness with the universe and harmony with all.
Maria, from Belgium
I am excited to learn as much as possible
through an in-depth study of The Nature of Order and collaboration with other students in the Building Beauty program. I believe there is a great responsibility to design and build with deliberate thoughtfulness in order to care for and enrichen each other's lives.
Sam, from the United States
Sustainability is only possible
if we create beautiful things and places that are worth preserving.
Sebastian, from Austria
Beauty is the relationship to our source of life and wonder.
Building Beauty is an opportunity to study science, spirit, and self in the unfolding mystery of beauty, so that the world might echo with the highest fidelity the quality of healing that is the source of all life.
Bryan, from the United States
In the Building Beauty program
I have found a perspective regarding architecture, building, beauty and community that makes sense to me. I look forward to meeting others who share this perspective.
Sasha, from the United States
I am excited to learn
about what makes good places, to create with my hands, and understand Alexande's work at a deeper level.
Idan, from Israel
CLASS OF 2021-2022
I want to tease out
the wholeness of places made with care and deliberation.
Hermann, from Germany
Is there an ideal environment
for a human being? What should it feel like? What should it do? In such a place, who would we become? I can think of nothing more important, or more interesting, than creating vibrant spaces that enchant and connect us.
Jenna, from the United States
I feel alive and “in the moment”
when I’m creating something. I’m grateful to be part of a community that feels the same.
Shahriar, from Iran
Building beauty is as intrinsic to me
as building her nest is to a bird. Let us rekindle our forgotten connections with the earth, our community, and ourselves.
Aarti, from India
I have been looking forward to this course for a long time.
Christopher Alexander’s works speak directly and with conviction to unravel a beautiful order that our reality is already in, and how we can restore, maintain and grow it further. It is a crucial perspective I have found to be missing in our present professional reality of all fields related with building.
Mayank, from India
I am so grateful for this community
committed to creativity, service, and building beauty!
Jan, from the United States
I learned about the concept of QWAN
during my early days of emerging as an Artist. I remember wondering who else would ever even understand. I am tremendously grateful to have found this program. My background is in Applied Anthropology & Archaeogeography but I have always been a Builder.
Xi, from the United States
As a lay practitioner of the art of making wholeness in the world,
I am eager and grateful to have found a welcome home for my passion. I am committed to making this world a beautiful place to be. Beautiful in all regards.
Emiliano, from the United States
I am excited to learn as much as possible
through an in-depth study of The Nature of Order and collaboration with other students in the Building Beauty program. I believe there is a great responsibility to design and build with deliberate thoughtfulness in order to care for and enrichen each other's lives.
Sam, from the United States
Building Beauty is a next step
toward the elusive "je ne sais quoi" in my woodworking and design of living spaces.
Mike, from the United States
Since my children
don’t share my excitement for Christopher Alexander’s work, I’m excited to be in a community that does!
Michael, from the United States