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The development of the process of a ‘pattern language’ as a series of ‘rules of thumb’ emerged with a particular set of elements and set of rules for combining them. Alexander maintains that all living processes resulted due to sequences of transformations and differentiation that emerge from this wholeness. In nature, these ‘living centres’ are evident and evolve in a ‘smooth unfolding’ and continuous manner. Generally designers use a certain number of already known schemata as rules of thumb for realising built form. Such form language needs to support the unfolding of forms using elements, parts and transformations, which lead to the emergence of a whole. All of language and process implicitly reinforce the general Gestalt theory of how the degree of ‘unity’ of a whole is dependent on its structure.
The development of the process of a ‘pattern language’ as a series of ‘rules of thumb’ emerged with a particular set of elements and set of rules for combining them. Alexander maintains that all living processes resulted due to sequences of transformations and differentiation that emerge from this wholeness. In nature, these ‘living centres’ are evident and evolve in a ‘smooth unfolding’ and continuous manner. Generally designers use a certain number of already known schemata as rules of thumb for realising built form. Such form language needs to support the unfolding of forms using elements, parts and transformations, which lead to the emergence of a whole. All of language and process implicitly reinforce the general Gestalt theory of how the degree of ‘unity’ of a whole is dependent on its structure.
‘Pattern Language’ Approach
Lewis, Nigel (author)
Design and Order ; 167-188
2020-09-08
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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