Imagination Is Not Creativity
Christopher Alexander died a week ago today. He was one of my last heroes. I won’t name the others. He had a unique impact on me in the way his work not only spanned, but continuously integrated, the physics of complexity, the implications for its practical application, and prose that read like poetry, something with a higher purpose.
Christopher Alexander died a week ago today. He was one of my last heroes. I won’t name the others. He had a unique impact on me in the way his work not only spanned, but continuously integrated, the physics of complexity, the implications for its practical application, and prose that read like poetry, something with a higher purpose. In The Timeless Way of Building he develops a concept he refers to as The Quality Without a Name. In working to induce in us, the reader, an aha moment about the quality, he offers that while there is sweetness to the quality, it also has a bitter aspect. It…
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