[keithnz]

worth checking this out from 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA kind of ironic he was moving away from patterns to more fundamental concepts just as the software world was just discovering patterns. I think his shift to these more fundamental concepts is a much better way to think about design.

[readthenotes1]

Alexander's thesis Notes on the Synthesis of Form contained the description of the design techniques, low coupling and high cohesion that were later brought into software in the mid-60s.

It's hard to get more fundamental than that, in software at least.

I remember trying to read his four book Magnum opus and found it much too dense. I think he settled on "life" as the quality without a name.

[orthoxerox]

Not "life", "wholeness". I also quit midway through the second book out of four, too much woo.