method

every project is worked in five beats —— written in the same five.

the manuscripts are not descriptions of the work, but its record.

01 · the constraint

what the work begins with. a material, a condition, a chosen limit.

02 · the structural decision

the relation that organizes the work. carried into its smallest decisions.

03 · what it rejects

what the decision gives up.

04 · evidence

the object built, captured. not described.

05 · what it cost

where the decision loses, and why it was taken anyway.

the fifth beat

the judgment is in the cost —— so the cost is published.

the system

the method produced one artifact of its own —— a paradigm for interfaces, written as laws so that compliance can be judged without me in the room.