At Any Given Moment in a Process - by Dorian Taylor

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…we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting and degrees of life.

Last week, the architect Christopher Alexander passed away. Christopher Alexander at the Julian Street Inn, taken by Richard Morgenstein. A polarizing figure in his own field, he found a second following in the field of software development, which is how I came to know of him. My friend Nisei Ota told me about him around 2001. I dutifully obtained a copy of A Pattern Language but never read it—I gave it to Brie. I asked her the other day; she still has it—she read it. (She says it changed her life.) I’ve actually done this more than once—I think I’m on my third or fourth copy. I did…

At Any Given Moment in a Process - by Dorian Taylor

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