Go BackNotes on the Synthesis of Form: Book draft
01/01/1960“Ph.D. version”, “Very much an old Draft” as mentioned by the author. 178-page text including: 1) Preface, 2) Part One: The Need of Rationality, 3) Part Two -6 Chapters: Heuristics, Goodness of Fit, Systems of Form-Production, The Source of Quality, The Unselfconscious System, The Self-conscious System, 4) Part Three – 7 Chapters: Identifying a Problem, The Casual Texture of the Problem’s Context, Representation of the Problem, The Process of Design, Problem Structure 1, Problem Structure 2, Solution, Information and Collaboration, 5) Epilogue. Appendices are not included.
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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 ...