71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language
About Buildings + Cities
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Do You Know What You Think They Are?
I'm not sure exactly what the invariant part of his definition is there, but yes, they are obviously a thing which comes out of the... Having a whole, like, to maintain your surface area to volume ratio is necessarily a good thing for diffusion. And then he goes through this process of here, all of these kind of like axiomatic good things that have been defined. It's very long so I'm not going to read the whole thing out. But basically, you have to start with a raised Terrace connected to the house. It should be somewhere sunny. He thinks it should be like an outdoor room. The columns have to be at the corners. There's some
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