Re: "The Nature of Order" by Christopher Alexander

Gavin Ritz (garritz@XTRA.CO.NZ)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:58:13 +1300

There is another great Cybernetician Wolfgang Mewes (EKS) Energy Cybernetic
Strategy, not ever mentioned, he is the Germany's most venerable management
theorist. Mostly retired now. Many of Germany's mittelstand companies have
gained world standing using the systems approach. Their web page is:
www.eks.de/
I would suggest that Christopher Alexander is a true cybernetician.

Bruce Edmonds wrote:

> What can anyone tell me about this man's thought?
>
> He is an architect. I came upon references to him in pages about
> "Patterns" in software engineering (See
> http://c2.org/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors - which is itself an interesting,
> self-organising web-site).
>
> See the web page about him at:
> http://www.math.utsa.edu/sphere/salingar/Chris.text.html
>
> He is about to publish a 4 volume book with the OUP, "The nature of
> order":
> http://www.math.utsa.edu/sphere/salingar/NatureofOrder.html
>
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