70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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The Right Way of Doing Design Is Not the Right Way of Doing It
Design is a very complex interrelationship between all of the different parts which needs in some sense to be conceptualized. I think he thinks he's doing something exemplary here by defining the way in which this crosswalk works and he is trying to do that as a sort of corrective to more reductive ways of you know conceptualizing design. We need to understand everything in terms of these complex networks which he likens to it he calls that. He says there are like a semilatus what's a Semilatus it's a kind of network he has on he has on his side the fact that he's done maths and he knows lots of cool words but actually the maths is really dumb
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