71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language
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Architecture Professor - Is He an Outsider Artist?
He doesn't have the right, in my opinion, to be an outsider artist. He's a flipping architecture professor at like he's taught it Harvard. The only way he can kind of learn from them is by half remembering how they did things and trying to prevent the wheel from scratching. A lot of stuff is horrible and also horrible and also done in a difficult way. I think that room would be better if they were just replaced by like steels or just large pieces of wood. Like a couple of laminated beams and sort of holding out. What's this motif with a, there's a kind of internal sash window with a ventilation grill centered above it? That's a weird
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