Advanced Topics on Geometry – Special Problems
Spring 1980On Unbroken Wholeness: eleven week seminar on the Centering Process and the Geometric Properties.
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Arch. 207, Spring 1980 - Advanced Topics in Geometry & Special Problems: Thoughts about good structures in design - Preliminary state of discussing processes leading to good structures
01/03/1980
41-page paper discussing the underlying factors and elements, which account for a good structure and trying to establish if a process, a universal algorithm, can be determined, able of guiding the creative process.
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Arch. 207, Spring 1980 - Advanced Topics in Geometry & Special Problems: Process of "Seeing" and Creating the Structure
01/06/1980
9-page essay on the inner-nature of things and on the process that makes possible its manifestation.
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Arch. 207, Spring 1980 - Advanced Topics in Geometry & Special Problems: Notes in response to class lectures and discussions on the "Centering Process"
01/03/1980
Sporadic student reflections over a course semester.
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References
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Wholeness and the Theory of Centers
Christoper Alexander defined and described wholeness as an idea to view and shape space, and searched for ways to formulate and represent wholeness in precise terms, as a structure. He idenfied the entities with 'strength' give structure to what is ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book One - The Phenomenon of Life
2002
“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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
2002
“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 ...