Dorian Taylor on Christopher Alexander
The Informed Life
Ethnographic Study of the Navigation Team of an Aircraft Carrier
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.
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