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From a Set of Forces to a Form
01/01/1966
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Request for an essay to be included in "The Nature of Architecture" encyclopedia under the Section "Conditions and Principles of Form Making"; specific reference to "From a Set of Forces to a Form"
01/11/1988
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"From a Set of Forces to a Form" article: Asking permission for republishing the article in "The Nature of Architecture" encyclopedia
11/09/1989
References
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Good Fit between Form & Context
Christopher Alexander states in the "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" that the object of design is form, and consequently the problem of design is to fit the form with its context. Form is the part of the world which ...
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Decomposition Process and the Diagrams
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 ...