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| | Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers |
 | | Alexander's central premise, driving over thirty years of thoughts, actions, and writings, is that there is something fundamentally wrong with twentieth century architectural design methods and practices. |
 | | Since the early 1970s Alexander has experimented with several overall development processes that preserve the integrity and promises of pattern-based design, as applied to projects at all scales, including houses, a cafe, a medical facility, apartments, two universities, a rural housing community, and an urban community [5,29,3,9,6,7,8]. |
 | | Alexander grammatically arranges pattern entries (although in an implicit fashion) to exploit the generative properties of formal languages [29]. |
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