TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander, Christopher 
TI  - Notes on the synthesis of form  
SN  - 9780674627512 
U1  - 745.4 ALE  
PY  - 1964///
CY  - Cambridge 
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  -  Form (Aesthetics)
KW  - Synthesis
KW  - City planning.
N1  - The need for rationality --
Goodness of fit --
The source of good fit --
The unselfconscious process --
The selfconscious process --
The program --
The realization of the program --
Definitions --
Solution --
Epilogue --
Appendix I. A worked example --
Appendix 2. Mathematical treatment of decomposition --
Notes
N2  - "These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design
ER  -