ALEXANDER - OR NOT

I am a great admirer of Christopher Alexander's work, and as I just stumpled over a nice collection of bits and pieces which describes it http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/Chris.text.html I sank in, and read. Then I sat back and wondered: Why is it, that the whole 'synthesis-of-form and patterns' way of thinking design suddenly strikes me as a strait-jacket? Maybe there is more truth to Löwgren & Stolterman's claim that a design language must be formed anew for each project than I thought at first. Maybe.