Notes on the inner logic of designing: Two thought-experiments

Abstract In this article the author attempts to get at the underlying logic of designing in two case studies: one a competition design (not built) for Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts, and the other, part of a completed building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The article first introduces the ideas of the ‘logic’ of designing, and of ‘replication’ and then goes on to present and analyse the two cases. After each there is discussion of the implications for book-keeping design, pointing toward descriptions that the designer may find usefully embedded in a computer assistant.