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claim:the-mere-list-of-centers-in-a-pattern-language-just-from-their-naming-already-conveys-a-profound-atmosphere-and-defines-the-life-of-the-place-to-an-enormous-degree

The mere list of centers in a pattern language, just from their naming, already conveys a profound atmosphere and defines the life of the place to an enormous degree

Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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The Samarkand pattern language list, merely from naming its centers in sequence, immediately creates a magical atmosphere defining the place without any physical design
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Demonstrated via the Samarkand poem-of-centers in section 11

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Poem of Centers
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The idea that a well-constructed pattern language is a work of art/poetry, evoking atmosphere by the mere naming of its centers

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.821
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 systemhypothesis0.819
Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
A well-constructed pattern language has the fifteen properties embedded within it, giving it a driving force that makes geometrical wholeness more easily visible and attainableclaim0.800
Connecting pattern language theory to the fifteen properties framework as its geometric substrate
A pattern language is a work of poetry and art, potentially as profound in its way as a building can beclaim0.794
Alexander's characterization of the deep nature of pattern languages in section 13
A Pattern Language patterns are not analogies but literal gradients of care over space—each already encodes care relationships.claim0.793
Patterns can be seen as active agents in the sense-making process.claim0.793
Central speculative claim blurring the line between data and algorithms.
Though the pattern language was created by the architect from people's words, it is theirs — they recognize it as their own collective visionclaim0.789
Describes the appropriate role of the architect as scribe, not author of the collective vision
Patterns capture knowledge beyond the individual.claim0.788
Why technologists love Alexander; patterns as mechanism for sharing and reusing design knowledge.