70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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The Perfect Design of a Village
The diagram is very hippie when you say sort of like sixties wallpaper yes or kind of like brush applied ceramic decoration or something. It's not a very convincing demonstration of the kind of computability of complex design requirements. I mean maybe I think to put a pin on for kind of future discussion is that where it's been successfully applied like designing computation is much less about integrating lots of different incompatible things that you don't know how to solve and tends to be more about being able to interpolate very smoothly between them. We'll post some of this on insta that you can make of it what you will, it's interesting"
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