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  72. Corbusier, Le 13
  73. Coyier, Chris 4
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  92. design 131
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  97. doors 7
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  100. Drucker, Peter F. 15
  101. Duany, Andres 18
  102. Eatock, Daniel 4
  103. economics 13
  104. efficiency 7
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  106. Eliot, T.S. 14
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  112. euphony 38
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  116. farming 8
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  118. features 25
  119. feedback 6
  120. flaws 10
  121. Flexner, Abraham 8
  122. food 16
  123. form 19
  124. Fowler, Martin 4
  125. Franklin, Ursula M. 30
  126. friendship 6
  127. fun 7
  128. function 31
  129. games 13
  130. gardens 26
  131. Garfield, Emily 4
  132. Garfunkel, Art 6
  133. geography 8
  134. geometry 18
  135. goals 9
  136. Gombrich, E. H. 4
  137. goodness 12
  138. Graham, Paul 37
  139. graphics 13
  140. Greene, Erick 6
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  148. Herbert, Frank 4
  149. Heschong, Lisa 27
  150. Hesse, Herman 6
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  152. Hoffman, Yoel 10
  153. Hofstadter, Douglas 6
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  156. Hoyt, Ben 5
  157. html 11
  158. Hudlow, Gandalf 4
  159. humanity 16
  160. humor 6
  161. Huxley, Aldous 7
  162. hypermedia 22
  163. i 18
  164. ideas 21
  165. identity 33
  166. images 10
  167. industry 9
  168. information 42
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  171. interaction 10
  172. interest 10
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  174. intuition 8
  175. invention 10
  176. Irwin, Robert 65
  177. Isaacson, Walter 28
  178. Ishikawa, Sara 33
  179. iteration 13
  180. Ive, Jonathan 6
  181. Jackson, Steven J. 14
  182. Jacobs, Jane 54
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  186. Kahn, Louis 4
  187. Kakuzō, Okakura 23
  188. Kaufman, Kenn 4
  189. Keith, Jeremy 6
  190. Keller, Jenny 10
  191. Keqin, Yuanwu 8
  192. Ketheswaran, Pirijan 6
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  234. minimalism 10
  235. Miyazaki, Hayao 30
  236. Mod, Craig 15
  237. modularity 6
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  239. morality 8
  240. Murakami, Haruki 21
  241. music 16
  242. Müller, Boris 7
  243. Naka, Toshiharu 8
  244. names 11
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  246. nature 51
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  248. Neustadter, Scott 3
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  341. Strunk, William 15
  342. Ström, Matthew 13
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  345. symbols 12
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  348. Sōseki, Natsume 8
  349. Tanaka, Tomoyuki 9
  350. Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō 15
  351. taste 10
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  353. teaching 21
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  356. texture 7
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  359. time 54
  360. Tolkien, J.R.R. 6
  361. tools 32
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  • The Timeless Way of Building

    A Book by Christopher Alexander
    www.patternlanguage.com
    1. ​​Mind of no mind​​
    2. ​​The quality without a name​​
    3. ​​An objective matter​​
    4. ​​Bitterness​​
    5. ​​The most precious thing we ever have​​
    1. ​​Some emptiness in us​​
    2. ​​Deliberate acts​​
    3. ​​No kind​​
    4. ​​patternsof.design​​
    5. ​​A Pattern Language​​
    6. ​​Non-architects​​
    7. ​​The Side View #17: Susan Ingham & Chris Andrews​​
    8. ​​The usages of life​​
    • architecture
    • making
    • building
    • urbanism
    • beauty
    • construction
    • zen
  • A Pattern Language

    A Book by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein & Sara Ishikawa
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​Its place in the web of nature​​
    2. ​​9. Scattered Work​​
    3. ​​21. Four-Story Limit​​
    4. ​​51. Green Streets​​
    5. ​​53. Main Gateways​​
    1. ​​Deliberate acts​​
    2. ​​patternsof.design​​
    3. ​​125 Best Architecture Books​​
    4. ​​The Timeless Way of Building​​
    5. ​​The design systems between us​​
    6. ​​Collaborative Information Architecture at Scale​​
    • architecture
    • urbanism
    • life
    • construction
  • A City Is Not a Tree

    An Essay by Christopher Alexander
    www.patternlanguage.com
    1. ​​Strands of life​​
    2. ​​Impending destruction​​
    3. ​​The right overlap​​
    4. ​​The difficulty of designing complexity​​
    5. ​​Political chains of influence​​
    1. ​​Trees and graphs​​
    2. ​​The dishonest mask of pretended order​​
    3. ​​The problem with trees​​
    4. ​​Both practical and aesthetic concerns​​
    • cities
    • urbanism
    • design
    • architecture
    • math
  • Notes on the Synthesis of Form

    A Book by Christopher Alexander
    www.hup.harvard.edu
    1. ​​I could do better than that​​
    2. ​​This small internal quaver​​
    3. ​​Their wrongness is somehow more immediate​​
    • math
    • design
    • architecture
    • form
    • problems
  • The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth

    A Book by Christopher Alexander
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​Two generating systems​​
    2. ​​Two types of building production​​
    3. ​​System A​​
    4. ​​System B​​
    5. ​​This has harmed modern society greatly​​
    1. ​​What the prototype tells you​​
    2. ​​On the "Building" of Software and Websites​​
    3. ​​Back to the Drawing Board​​
    4. ​​Reading the landscape​​
    • architecture
    • urbanism
    • beauty
    • construction

    A struggle between two world-systems.

  • The Nature of Order

    A Book by Christopher Alexander
    www.natureoforder.com
    1. ​​Levels of Scale​​
    2. ​​Strong Centers​​
    3. ​​Boundaries​​
    4. ​​Alternating Repetition​​
    5. ​​Positive Space​​
    1. ​​Strength from both mass and form​​
    • architecture
    • urbanism
    • goodness
    • beauty
  • Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture

    A Dialogue by Christopher Alexander & Peter Eisenman
    www.katarxis3.com
    1. ​​The realm of feeling​​
    2. ​​Panic​​
    3. ​​The pitched roof​​
    4. ​​The trick of little machines​​
    5. ​​Merely a building​​

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