Christoper Alexander—

The pattern language that we began creating in the 1970s had other essential features. First, it has a moral component. Second, it has the aim of creating coherence, morphological coherence in the things which are made with it. And third, it is generative: it allows people to create coherence, morally sound objects, and encourages and enables this process because of its emphasis on the coherence of the created whole.

Patterns and MDSD might be nearby standing, what Alexander meant could have to do much more with model drivenness than design patterns.