70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form

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Introduction

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Is There a Difference Between Architecture and Architecture?

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A PhD in Architecture at Harvard

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Is This a Book That You Should Read?

05:22 • 2min

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Design Philosophy by Bernard Rudofsky

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What Makes Design Good or Bad

09:45 • 2min

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The Self-Conscious Individual Is the Like Modern Alienated Designer

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What Is Wrong With Self-Conscious Design?

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Designing a House or a Kettle?

15:49 • 2min

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Is There a Design Process That Is Only the Sum of Things That Could Be Wrong With It

17:27 • 2min

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The Test of Fitness in a Kettle

19:42 • 3min

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The Problem of Complexity in a Network of Objects

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What's the First Failure State?

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Cotton Is the Best Crash Crop Without Cotton Being the Best Cat Crop

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I Think He's Using a Tree Diagram to Generate a Network of Variables

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The Problems of the Village

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The Perfect Design of a Village

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The Journey Not the Destination

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The City Is Not a Tree

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The Right Way of Doing Design Is Not the Right Way of Doing It

39:06 • 3min

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Design Is Not Human Intelligence Works

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I've Got to Think About This as a Combination of Essentially Infinite Numbers of Variables

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The World Has Fallen Architects Are Baddies for Their Innovation

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Subsequent Buildings - A Brief History

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