Book Chapter

Chapter 13. The Character of Rooms, 10 / Tranquility even in the Huge

Book title:

The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three – A Vision of a Living World

Pages:

442-443

Content of

Book

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

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

No of pages:

697 pp

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

References

Scientific Research

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

Projects

Tokyo International Forum: Conference Center for City of Tokyo 1989

3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Civic, Designed , Invited Competition, Not built

Client:

Tokyo International Forum Project Office, Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Eleni Coromvli, Gary Black

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $750,000,000

Project stages:

Preliminary Design drawings Construction innovation methods

Invited design competition entry for a complex of conference halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, and other public facilities at a central site in downtown Tokyo, occupied by the City Hall, which was to be razed to make way for this project. ...