Ed Buffaloe
Poet, photographer. Web site at http://unblinkingeye.com. I read A Pattern Language because my partner and I will need to build a house in a few years. Pattern language has become an organizational paradigm.
Many analogues:
- The organization of MarshallMcLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy, "a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms."
ISBN: 0802060412. Also take note of the convergence of multiple media in the personal computer (print, telephone, photography, film, video, music).
- The concept of "significant form" in art (see Langer's Feeling And Form
ISBN: 0023675004) seems analogous to the "quality without a name." See SignificantForm.
- Science, art, literature, every aspect of human life involves the manipulation of symbols. See Ernst Cassirer's The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
ISBN: 0300000375. Programming as symbol manipulation (SymbolIsm, SoftwareIsArt).