i think about this in terms of, he's using the building site itself as an analogue computer. And i get that froms aanother book that, like, totally randomly, totally by chance, i bought at the same time i bought pattern language the first time. Back in two thousand one i was called cognition in the wild by ed hutchkins. If you've never read it, oh, my god, it'll blow your mind. It is an ethnographic study of the navigation team of an aircraft carrrier.
Dorian Taylor is a consulting designer. He’s been influenced by the work of the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander, who died in March. In this conversation, we discuss Alexander’s influence on the design of built environments and software.
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