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knowledge. Although never directly expressed, the goal of deconstruction is to erase institutions of knowledge. What Derrida has said is alarming enough: “Deconstruction goes through certain social and political structures, meeting with
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“An important aspect of adaptive evolution is afforded to users in such environments. They give us the capacity to control the degree of stimulation and variety, to explore intricate and varying layers of space, to locate rich geometrical structures that we users might find interesting and beautiful. We might elaborate on these structures as a way of clarifying them and making them more legible — or even more beautiful.”
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
“philosophical and ideological ponderings. Architects today continue to fool themselves into believing that philosophy or ideology can substitute for a cogent understanding of the natural processes of the earth, and the structural principles of the physical world. Even though all great architectural works of the past were derived from some aspect of nature, or perhaps in spite of this, a peculiar choice of philosophy is misused in contemporary architecture to supplant nature.”
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
“And in the process, we leave a toxic planetary wreckage, the consequences of which, it is more than ever clear, we simply will not survive. This, too, is a necessary adaptation we must make — one that will challenge our orthodox thinking, about the very methods and aims of design.”
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
“Understanding and applying the geometric properties of human space, particularly its patterns of connections, is essential. We, as urban designers, or as architects — or really, as designers of any kind — have to take this problem seriously. The art of our work lies in the way we elaborate and elucidate these deeper realities of life.”
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
“Adaptive design’s principal aim is to facilitate the different components of a particular subsystem so they assemble themselves into a coherent subsystem.”
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
― Unified Architectural Theory: A COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER’S THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE — THE NATURE OF ORDER, BOOK 1
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