ABSTRACT
The book describes the conflicts between the conscious programming of buildings. For much of history it is difficult to find a record of how the usual or common buildings of that era were designed or built. The "background" buildings of Paris or Rome are a part of the ambiance that gives those cities a quality of enduring character important to all who live there and visit them, but there are few records of how they were designed. Design professionals, especially architects, have tended to market their services in large and expensive packages. The book provides computer-based analytic and design methods provide for making the connections between expanded bodies of knowledge. There is a tendency to use the computer in a constrained way for architects that is, to do the same thing architects do now, but to speed it up or increase the number of alternatives explored.
