Christopher Alexander: Draft of a paper in five parts –Introduction, The Theory, The Practice, The Problem, The Promise– intended to be published in “Preservation Magazine”, accompanied with additional pieces of text for sidebars

“The Phenomenon of Life”, the first volume of “The Nature of Order” series proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for ...

“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 ...