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Systems Generating Systems

01/01/1967

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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 ...
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 ...

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Steven Grabow Interviews Christopher Alexander: Grabow recorded and transcribed the interviews, being the raw material for his book on Alexander - The twenty-nineth transcript includes the Jun-14 interview 14/06/1977

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13-page handwritten transcript of the twenty-nineth interview titled “Mobility – Systems Generating Systems – The City is not a Tree (cont.) – On Making Things – Users – Memories of the Center years”. The largest section is on what it ...