Prospects and Retrospects – An interview with Christopher
Alexander on his new series of books,” The Nature of Order”

“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 ...

Interview by Davide Deriu, who at the time of the interview was teaching Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett, University College London and Luis Diaz, Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton. The ...

3-page transcript of the interview Christopher Alexander gave to Davide Deriu and Luis Diaz.