@lukemperez Thinking of you all.
@lukemperez Thinking of you all.
@todd Little Seed Farm cream deodorant is excellent (so many natural deodorants don’t work for me.) See the wood applicator. Note small travel packs too.
@spgreenhalgh zzzzzing!
@dwalbert Yeah, there’s something weirdly comforting about knowing Alexander and co are naming Really Obvious Things — but things that deserve formal codification as recognizably human!
@isaacgreene Beautiful!
@towittowoo I’ll be curious to hear how it lands!
@annahavron indeed — best empirical data
@ffmike That makes sense. And understood re: the memories! Just tracing lightly how it showed up in pedagogies that folks even broadly recall. Cheers.
@isaacgreene ❤️
@ffmike That’s lovely. Do you recall if you were taught it in studio vs seminar/history?
@bethanyh Oof, you said it. There are so many moments in that book where I’m like; OF COURSE, and WHYYYY.
@annahavron I love that. And Child Caves! Surely one of the sturdiest universals in good design.
@JohnBrady Just that objectivity doesn’t mean specific styles of columns, for example. Or columns at all. The pattern is more directional than directive. (Trying to write about this, so the specifics matter to me, but yes, we’re likely on same page!)
@JohnBrady @readerjohn I actually think the ingenious identification of patterns helps the book avoid going all the way to objective beauty in the stylistic sense. Broader, more capacious than that, allowing for global variation.
@ReaderJohn I have this working theory that it’s not taught because it implies universals, you know? Not a style guide or set of blueprints, but patterns as an affirmation of recognizable Good Design (and therefore Bad Design).
@JohnBrady Yes! So excited to talk with students about it.
@bethanyh It’s most celebrated and enjoyed by non-architects! And hardly taught at all in contemporary architecture schools, which is a mystery I’m trying to suss out. I’ll be curious how you find it. As you see, it’s really a perusal/reference text more than a chronology.
@isaacgreene Mine is set for my office! If I can lay hands on it again…in a pile somewhere right nearby.
@JohnBrady Agree — so successful in part because actually human, not Message-Ful.
@ayjay Congrats, Alan!
@isaacgreene Did you follow a dumbing-down protocol from somewhere you can link to? Or just extreme simplification?
@mwerickson Thanks so much for this. I purchased a copy halfway through reading your post, and I needed to hear the “being much more than knowing” today in a big way.
@patrickrhone Preach.
@jonah Oh how beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
@ReaderJohn She’ll be at Notre Dame later this week!