Architecture & dress

matching form to context

Every design problem begins with an effort to achieve fitness between two entities: the form in question and its context. The form is the solution to the problem; the context defines the problem. In other words, when we speak of design, the real object of discussion is not the form alone, but the ensemble comprising the form and its context […] The rightness of the form depends, in each one of these cases, on the degree to which it fits the rest of the ensemble.
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Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form

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