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concept:stepwise-decomposition-of-hierarchies-of-wholesStepwise decomposition of hierarchies of wholes
Design approach emphasizing breaking wholes into parts while preserving relationships, praised by a designer as Alexander's 'gold'.
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- An ordering of texts via spatial cues like indentation, size, and placement, implying importance.
- Mathematical representation of precedence relations among steps: which centers must be in position before another can be formed, defining good sequences as linearizations that minimize backtracking.
- Drucker argues that indentation, size, placement, and relative position create hierarchies not as moral values but as relational effects within a system.
- Integrated, living structures that emerge from morphogenetic piecemeal growth.
- The idea that living structure emerges only through a sequence of small, structure-preserving moves, not by a single grand blueprint.
- The overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.
- Attribute: spatial positioning that signals inferiority, using lower positioning or smaller size.