Each pattern stores design principles appropriable by residents, attempting to eliminate authority of specialist while governing interaction through immanent rules.

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• Patterns enable rearrangement of political power in design and building processclaim0.769
  Kent Beck's interpretation of Alexander; technologists value Alexander for enabling horizontal, codified design processes that challenge traditional architectural hierarchy.
• Once generic patterns have been established, it is relatively easy to generate local individual variations in a genuine and practical way.claim0.755
  Practical advice that a solid pattern language makes personalized design feasible at scale.
• Patterns can be seen as active agents in the sense-making process.claim0.749
  Central speculative claim blurring the line between data and algorithms.
• Design and engineering knowledge are not reducible to scientific principles; operational principles are needed.claim0.747
  Polanyi's argument applied to software.
• A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent systemhypothesis0.739
  Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
• Pattern Language patterns enable rather than prescribe: they are conditions, not commands.claim0.738
• Can we identify any general, operational rule which we can follow, which would tell us whether to make a particular robe symmetrical or asymmetrical, or a particular design symmetrical or asymmetrical?question0.736
  The crux problem of symmetry balance in design.
• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.731
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.