Go BackNotes on the Synthesis of Form: Prepress proof
01/01/1964216-page final book preprint copy, the hard cover version, with unbound contents. Table of Contents as follows: 1) Introduction: The Need for Rationality, 2) Part One – 4 Chapters: Goodness of Fit, The Source of Good Fit, The Unselfconscious Process, The Self-conscious Process, 3) Part Two – 4 Chapters: The Program, The Realization of the Program, Definitions, Solution with an Epilogue. Appendix I: A Worked Example and Appendix II: Mathematical Treatment of Decomposition; in addition a Notes section including notes and book references by the author.
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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 ...