Currently reading A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction. It’s amazing the authors thought only within the confines of architecture, since the language is so organic and naturally re-usable.
And at times the ideas reach the realm of the beautiful, like this Tao Te Ching-meets-gospel of Thomas passage:
“this is a fundamental view of the world…when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it…”