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Notes on the Synthesis of Form is a book by Christopher Alexander about the process of design. Design. Alexander defines design as "the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function...".
“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design.
In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once.
This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is...
25 de jun. de 2009 · Alexander, Christopher. Publication date. 1964. Topics. Form (Aesthetics), City planning. Publisher. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled.
The search for the right components, and the right way to build the form up from these components, is the greatest challenge faced by the modern, selfconscious designer. Every design problem begins with an effort to achieve fitness between two entities: the form in question and its context.
20 de feb. de 2023 · Notes on "Notes on the Synthesis of Form": Dawning Insights in Early Christopher Alexander. Richard P. Gabriel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany) This essay is a picaresque -- a first-person narrative relating the adventures of a rogue (me) sifting through the mind of Christopher Alexander as he left behind formalized design ...
