70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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I've Got to Think About This as a Combination of Essentially Infinite Numbers of Variables
The modernist way of framing design process was a bit odd in the immediate post-war. It tended to be framed as like it's explicitly kind of sort of technocratic yeah time of motion studies. When people started saying well actually if we really think about it a lot of the way in which people design buildings is that they have pre-existing solutions and understandings, he says.
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