Record

“Rightness and Wrongness in the Physical Environment”: Original text of article

01/01/1969

Article Publication, Original Text

48-page original text of the same title article, included in the book “Design Methods in Architecture”.

Authors:

Anthony Ward, University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Article

Rightness and Wrongness in the Physical Environment 01/01/1969

Book Contribution

Authors:

Anthony Ward

Published in:

Design Methods in Architecture, Architectural Association Series

Editor:

Geoffrey H. Broadbent, Anthony Ward

Publisher:

George Witterborn Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.

References

Scientific Research

Good Fit between Form & Context

Areas of focus:

Quality and Values

Guiding idea:

Goodness of Fit

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 ...