Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)

@book{citeulike:305880, author = {Alexander, Christopher W. }, citeulike-article-id = {305880}, comment = { To match the growing complexity of problems, there is a growing body of information and specialist experience. This information is hard to handle; it is widespread, diffuse, unorgenized. [...] the various specialist who retail it are narrow and unfamiliar with the form-makers' peculiar problems. As a result [...] the average designer scans whatever information he happens on, consults a consultant now and then when faced by extra-special difficulties, and introduces this randomly selected information into forms otherwise dreamt up in the artists' studio of his mind. (Alexander, 1964, p 4) ---=note-separator=--- design is - "The process of inventing physical things which display new physical order, organizatio, form, in response to function" (p 1)}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0674627512}, keywords = {alexander, design, philosophy, process, theory}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2006-03-23 01:57:16}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Harvard University Press}}, title = {Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&path=ASIN/0674627512}, year = {1970} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:305880 L3 - citeulike-article-id:305880 TI - Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) PB - {Harvard University Press} SN - 0674627512 KW - alexander KW - design KW - philosophy KW - process KW - theory N1 - To match the growing complexity of problems, there is a growing body of information and specialist experience. This information is hard to handle; it is widespread, diffuse, unorgenized. [...] the various specialist who retail it are narrow and unfamiliar with the form-makers' peculiar problems. As a result [...] the average designer scans whatever information he happens on, consults a consultant now and then when faced by extra-special difficulties, and introduces this randomly selected information into forms otherwise dreamt up in the artists' studio of his mind. (Alexander, 1964, p 4) N1 - design is - "The process of inventing physical things which display new physical order, organizatio, form, in response to function" (p 1) AU - Alexander, Christopher PY - 1970/06/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0674627512 ER -