Terry,
You are right.
Due to my extreme youth (born in 1961), I got all this mashed up in the eighties. But since you guys are always coopting Alexander in the gang, I though you really believe in his lucky (architectural) charms.
By the way, there are in Mathematics, some fields such as geometry, graphs and other forms of representation that are closer to visualization than others (say algebra and even statistics).
You were in the field, probably listening to Sargent Pepper’s in a different way that I did (nice children’s music), so you may say if it is true that the Design Methods Movement had mostly a case in Architecture rather than in industrial design, both in making things as in theoretical production?
E.
PS I’m really ignorant on the matter. The images of the time tend to focus now on Mary Quant, John Lennon or Twiggy and David Bowie
> No dia 04/07/2017, às 14:59, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
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> Hi Eduardo,
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> <snip> And Terry, I think you forgot Architecture regarding the foundations of Design Research (of the 60’s).<endsnip>,
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> Yes you are right. Architecture has made a significant contribution to design research. In the UK at least, it seemed however, that the contribution of Architecture to design research and design theory came through in the late 70s and early 80s - think Alexander, Balzanac, Rittel and Webber, Schon... Chris Alexander's Notes on Synthesis on form was earlier (1964) but in fact was primarily a matter of mathematics and computer systems modelling rather than architecture (Chris Alexander having just completed his Masters in Mathematics) . His Pattern Language (1976) can be seen in a similar light. I was involved in design methods movement in the late 60s and remember many of the books and paper s coming out.
> Of course, your mileage on these things may be different :-)
> Cheers,
> Terry
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