Go BackConference on Design Methods
19/09/1962 to 21/09/1962Christopher Alexander, then a member in the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, after studying mathematics and architecture at Cambridge University, was doing research on the design of an agricultural village and on a complete theory of patterns. The results of the research were presented in the conference as a paper “The Determination of Components for an Indian Village”, included afterwards in his Ph.D. disseratation, published in 1964 as “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”.
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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 ...