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Notes on the synthesis of form

"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design
Print Book, English, [1964]
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, [1964]
216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780674627512, 0674627512
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The need for rationality
Goodness of fit
The source of good fit
The unselfconscious process
The selfconscious process
The program
The realization of the program
Definitions
Solution
Epilogue
Appendix I. A worked example
Appendix 2. Mathematical treatment of decomposition
Notes