Chapter 10. Pleasing Yourself, 12 / A Significantly Large Structure

“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...

In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...

International competion entry for bridge over Rio Grande de Loiza, proposing a precast, pierced-concrete, long span shell design, 500 meter span.

A highly innovative structure, designed to be made out of prestressed light-weight pierced concrete shells, for a 500 meter span; extensive finite-element simulations were run to ensure its high structural strength.