Show threadVassil Nikolov | Васил НиколовAug 10, 2025

@screwlisp wrote:
> ... Alexander's final three books were, which I understood reflected his ultimate theory of architecture

Right.
And practice: if I recall correctly, one of them describes actual designs by himself and his students that strove to follow his theoretical principles.

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Again, and by the way, for those who are that way inclined, see also _The Design of Design_ by Fred Brooks.

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...millions of individual acts...will together generate...[that] which is alive, and whole, and unpredictable, without control. This is the slow emergence of the quality without a name, as if from nothing.
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The qualities of aliveness expressed in the physical patterns of our homes and communities, communicate a message that can be silent to our ears, but loud to our intuitions.
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We cannot account for a phenomenon at the topmost level merely by a concatenation of elements at the lowest level. We are dealing with a Gestalt. That is to say the ‘betweenness’ is more important than the ‘things’ we believe we discern within it.
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