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artifact:california-cement-sack-wallCalifornia Cement-Sack Wall
An ordinary garden wall made from hardened cement sacks and gunite, used to demonstrate how even utilitarian objects can be made I-like through pair comparison.
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- The iterative method Alexander uses to make design decisions: compare two versions and ask which is more a picture of one's own eternal self, repeating until convergence.
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- Alexander uses this probe to demonstrate the pair-comparison method as a practical design tool for making dimensional decisions about ordinary structures.