Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement
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Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement
Alexander is inspired by how design occurs in the natural world. "Things that are good have a certain kind of structure," he told me. "You can't get that structure except dynamically. Period. In nature you've got continuous very-small-feedback-loop adaptation going on, which is why things get to be harmonious. That's why they have the qualities tha... See more
Tomas Petricek • On architecture, urban planning and software construction
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
What does it take to build something so that’s it’s really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you’ve made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there?
Chris Alexander
One is that while the dominant model of universal design has disability at its center, the very success of the innovations it generates tends to obscure their origin stories, as in the case of the OXO peeler. That success erases the very real, ongoing barriers to an adaptive, flexible world for disabled people. Universal design also tends to stoke
... See moreSara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
By background and temperament, he was a generalist, and he always resisted the specialist’s narrow attitude toward design. If we are to really build back better, we need to take a similar approach.
the hedgehog review • The Man Who Built Forward Better
Whenever human beings sought to change their way of life or their surroundings, by barricading a prehistoric cave against predators or modifying the head of a spear, they acted as designers, but did so instinctively.