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71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language

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Is There Really an Objective Way of Measuring All This?

I think he's a bad lecturer. He doesn't either get across what he's talking about very well or speak very well. He kind of is really slow. He does a thing where so he'll be lecturing and he'll say, you know, here's this thing. You know, the thing about modern architecture is it cannot sustain human life. It cannot be life sustaining. But in fact, we found me and my research group of other people in the same cult discovered that there is really an objective way of measuring all this too long for me to get into now. There's things to be drawn to. I also have watched quite a lot of lectures by him.

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