Design methods as a subject of study is absurd; separates design from practice

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• I reject the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since I think it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of design.quote0.919
  Alexander's 1971 preface disavowal of the Design Methods Movement, illustrating his radical self-revisions.
• Alexander rejects the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of design.claim0.876
  Steenson's paraphrased quote capturing Alexander's vehement rejection of the Design Methods Movement.
• The process of design is an empirical matter: which step has the deepest feeling can be discovered by experiment in the real place or in simulations.claim0.768
  Defines the experimental, empirical nature of deciding next steps.
• Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.761
• Art is not a trivial or interesting practice but something utterly fundamental to our human existence and to the nature of things as they areclaim0.754
  Stakes a strong normative claim about the role of art in light of the person-stuff thesis
• process, not designconcept0.746
  The idea that the life of a building comes from the process of its creation, not from a preconceived design on paper.
• The Arts and Crafts period did not develop a systematic methodology for achieving quality in design and makingclaim0.740
• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.739
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.