Michael, this is such a logical, inspired, and valuable extension of your thinking and experience in music and architecture. It is a gift to writers. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
This is brilliant. Thank you for creating and sharing it. This essay lands before my eyeballs at the exact moment I was literally throwing my hands up in the air thinking, f*%ck(!) I will never ever get this!!!! I especially love the drawings. So....I'm now on (self guided) course on offer here. Again, thank you.
I found this helpful. My degree has been in civil engineering and my career has been mostly commercial construction projects.
My reading/writing only recently started to improve and I think the connection from architecture to the composition of essays have resonated with me. I’m hopeful that my writing will improve. There’s a lot of space for improvement.
Wow. THANK YOU. I read "A Pattern Language" in my liberal arts college, in a class where we were discussing the ecological and political implications of structure and design. I can not wait to read how you break this down. I also want to revisit Christopher Alexander, since I remember how much that book opened my mind.
Though the poll is closed (I joined Essay Club just a few days ago), I'm putting my vote in for a Summary of All Patterns in One spot! In this regard, what did you decide to send?
This sounds like a really cool concept. I am a big fan of grand theories and architectures. I actually enjoy reading (good) textbooks because they can provide this: rather than just facts, a new pair of glasses through which to view the world. More colors, because we can name them.
For example, "Rules of Play" is on of the most popular textbooks on video game design. It provides a comprehensive structure for how to analyze video games in three dimensions: Rules, Play, and Culture. But there are 33 total chapters, which break these dimensions down further, and then tie them back together.
I'm gonna check out some of your examples and explanations of the terms to get a grasp on how this whole architecture works
Wow I love this, I'm definitely going to be rereading this again and again!
Thank you for an in-depth explanation and exploration of this. I'll be checking out "A Pattern Langauge!"
Michael, this is such a logical, inspired, and valuable extension of your thinking and experience in music and architecture. It is a gift to writers. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
Plus, wow. Just wow. 🙏 ⭐️🤯
This is brilliant. Thank you for creating and sharing it. This essay lands before my eyeballs at the exact moment I was literally throwing my hands up in the air thinking, f*%ck(!) I will never ever get this!!!! I especially love the drawings. So....I'm now on (self guided) course on offer here. Again, thank you.
I found this helpful. My degree has been in civil engineering and my career has been mostly commercial construction projects.
My reading/writing only recently started to improve and I think the connection from architecture to the composition of essays have resonated with me. I’m hopeful that my writing will improve. There’s a lot of space for improvement.
…only 56,815,128,661,595,284,938,812,255,859,275 more essays to go and I will be complete…
The diagrams help me to understand. I like their handmade quality too. I think there's real juice in the combination of word and image.
Wow. THANK YOU. I read "A Pattern Language" in my liberal arts college, in a class where we were discussing the ecological and political implications of structure and design. I can not wait to read how you break this down. I also want to revisit Christopher Alexander, since I remember how much that book opened my mind.
you had me at "you don't need Rick Rubin"
Very interesting! If you'd like to see a parallel example of teaching using a pattern language, I refer to a paper in this post, which also introduces Christopher Alexander's concept. The example is teaching video game design. https://open.substack.com/pub/goprefigure/p/how-to-think-like-a-video-game-designer
Thank you for existing.
Where can this scoring criteria be found?
musing: what would a grio’s pattern language be?
Though the poll is closed (I joined Essay Club just a few days ago), I'm putting my vote in for a Summary of All Patterns in One spot! In this regard, what did you decide to send?
Have you seen or heard about, Jonathan Pageau, by any chance,
Michael?
This sounds like a really cool concept. I am a big fan of grand theories and architectures. I actually enjoy reading (good) textbooks because they can provide this: rather than just facts, a new pair of glasses through which to view the world. More colors, because we can name them.
For example, "Rules of Play" is on of the most popular textbooks on video game design. It provides a comprehensive structure for how to analyze video games in three dimensions: Rules, Play, and Culture. But there are 33 total chapters, which break these dimensions down further, and then tie them back together.
I'm gonna check out some of your examples and explanations of the terms to get a grasp on how this whole architecture works
do you have a printer-friendly version of this graph? I want to hang it on my wall where I work