Hey, I started a podcast. 10m long, super casual, may not keep it up. But close friends said kind things, so I’m gonna publish and see what happens. RSS, Spotify, Apple, Overcast.
🎙️ Notes from Practicing Typography 001:
- Help us choose the final syntax for Masonry in CSS by Jen Simmons and Elika Etemad, with Brandon Stewart. Note that my audio credits only Jen by mistake.
- Feedback needed: How should we define CSS masonry? by Rachel Andrew.
Christopher Alexander, The Process of Creating Life:
Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually. The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation. This is obvious, of course. To a biologist or ecologist it is self-evident.
Yet in architecture it is far from self-evident. Neither the process of design, nor the process of construction in modern conventional processes work like this. Instead there is a conception of a desired end-state (the design), and the system of architectural and constructional processes is geared up to producing this desired end-state, efficiently, and at all costs as it was initially defined — almost entirely without realistic feedback and improvement and adaptation while the processes are going on.