A Pattern Language | Architecture and Music are related | remembering Christopher Alexander 

Thanks for effectively spreading the gospel of PL!😉👍✌️🖖

Love the book. I can pick it up anytime and learn...and smile.

Northern CA looks amazing. I like how you connect physical, structural, maybe even gps attributes of the physical world to music. Just like energy, kinetic, electricity, light, and mass, have a common language, which is math, I think music and architecture have a common language. It's just harder to define with my current vocabulary.

Hey Chris, have been enjoying your prolific channel and as many of your clips as I can keep up with! I'd heard about Pattern Language in high school, when I was becoming fascinated by architecture. When I applied to undergrad schools, one interviewer asked me to elaborate when I told them I thought there were deep relationships between the two, and my mind went blank with interview "stage fright." I always remember that when the topic comes up. Curiously, if you recall, the arts complex at our college was designed by author Norton Juster, down to every point and line. (I suspect Alexander's work didn't come into play however) It's interesting that one of Alexander's students claims that the patterns are meant to be observational rather than prescriptive, hence they aren't supposed to be design blueprints that you assemble. But many different disciplines have tried to adopt his principles for design; he's been a guest speaker at software conferences - and subject of some related books, and software interface designers have attempted to coopt his ideas for interface design (See Jennifer Tidwell's "Designing Interfaces"). Surprisingly Frank Lloyd Wright's grandchildren have a ranch in Malibu atop one of the highest hills overlooking the town, and they are teaching organic gardening and architecture based on Alexander's ideas. It does seem - from my experience - that a lot of music is built from the shingles down, contrary to what Schenker would like us to believe. Is the melody the icing on the cake or the cake itself? Many songs emerge from a common harmonic progression, which we could liken to a foundation. Are atonality and deconstructionist architecture cousins? Wouid a musician really want to apply deconstructionist principles to a composition? Worthy of much further discussion... Hope you're doing well!

Can you teach on hemiolas please