Article

Towards a Science of Design – A critique by engineer Paul Weidlinger of a book which proposes a complex, formal method of relating functional analysis to design

01/10/1964

Article, Book Review

Authors:

Paul Weidlinger

Published in:

Architectural Record, pp. 50, 57, 72 & 80

Publisher:

McGraw Hill Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.

References

Published Books

Notes on the Synthesis of Form 01/01/1964

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In ...