The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Book Two – Process; an early attempt to separate the one manuscript into distinct books

01/01/1995

Book Draft, Complete Manuscript

534-page draft of “Book Two – Process” in a bound form, which the following contents:
Prologue: The Nature of Process
Chapter 12: Unfolding Wholeness as the Basis of All Nature; Chapter 14: Elementary Example of a Building Process; Chapter 15: The Necessity of Process; Chapter 16: At Every Step Ask “Is the Feeling of the Whole Increased?”; Chapter 17: The Fundamental Process
Part Four – Details of the Building Process: Chapter 18: Pure Geometry – The Achievement of Living Space; Chapter 19: Pre-design – Defining the Essential Centers; Chapter 20: Volume and Site Design; Chapter 21: Working out the Structure; Chapter 22: Actual Making – Building Details; Chapter 23: A New Construction Process in Society; Chapter 24: The Vision of Simplicity .

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published Book

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Two - The Process of Creating Life 01/01/2002

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...