“Twenty-six Pictures to the Top of the Tree”, section dedicated to the work of Christopher Alexander and Marvin Manheim included in “Technology: Methods and Machines to Shape the Future”

The prevailing idea being the search for goodness of fit between form and its context, Alexander postulated that in today's selfconscious design process, in order to attain a good design there must be an underlying correspondence between the structure of ...

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...