Masters Thesis: "The Lightness of the City"
Exploration Sketches
2017
The power of the “diagram” is at the core of formal synthesis. A design problem is balanced by the “good fit” of two elements: form and context. The form is the solution to the problem that is defined by the context. The surrounding context is what places demands on the form, represented by a “diagram of forces” known as the “field description”. The unitary description of the context is equivalent to the field description of the form.[1]
[1]Christopher Alexander. “Notes on the Synthesis of Form.” (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964), 15-21.
