Protographs of Christopher Alexander’s sequence of three dooddles which illustrate the process on creating centers, using the shirt-tail design example.

01/01/1978
Sketches

Christopher Alexander referred to it as a “playful and simple way of following the fundamental process, which says that at each step, strong centers are to be created, step by step, in space”.
He did the first doodle very fast, in five minutes, using a soft pencil. It includes the first eleven steps of the whole process. .

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