The ABC's of ▲■●: The Bauhaus and Design Theory A Book by Ellen Lupton & J. Abbott Miller The cultivation of inherent facultiesThe basic courseIt is a little worldA universal correspondenceThe arbitrariness of the sign+4 More
Their wrongness is somehow more immediate In general, a successful design, which Alexander terms a good fit between form and context, can be declared only when we can detect no more [points that conform to the standard against which we judge]. It is "departures from the norm which stand out in our minds, rather than the norm itself. Their wrongness is somehow more immediate than the rightness." Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things Notes on the Synthesis of Form