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Master Plan for Village of Bavra: Village for Gujarat, India
01/01/196281-page report organized in three parts: 1st part describes how the project initiated and the work produced after seven months of field study in the village of Brava, near Mehemedabad, Gujarat; 2nd part includes the 32 pages of a reprinted article “The Determination of Components for an Indian Village” and the 3rd part includes a 37-page Appendix I – A Worked Example of the Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Project is referenced as “C.E.S. Project 2” leading to “the birth of the thought which is now contained in the Timeless Way of Building and in the theory of pattern languages”.
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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 ...