His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology.
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The Timeless Way of Building (1979) described the perfection of use to which buildings could aspire:[25] >There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel **alive**, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.