71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language
About Buildings + Cities
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Is There a Difference Between Patterns and Typology?
I've always thought architecture theory goes out of its way to become. Well, typology is the exercise, isn't it? The fact that something to type doesn't mean that it's good. So that's obviously one. Patterns are kind of moral. They're like normatively good and life enriching in a way that types are not. And also, yeah. Do you think in his cosmology there's like the like dark side pattern book? Yeah, that would be a nice one to write, wouldn't it? Like, you know, the anarchist urban planning guide. I actually don't think that would exist, though, because he regards it as like lifeiness as being
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