Gang of Four

The Design Patterns book by the Gang of Four was inspired in previous work by Christopher Alexander, a well know (building) architect.

Alexander's ideas on "patterns" have been successfully applied to software architecture and to many other areas.

So yes, I'd say there's some sort of MetaDesign, common "Meta Patterns" that you can apply in different areas.

--Antonio 23:06, 10 March 2010 (CET)