Battle: The History of a Crucial Clash between World-System A and World-System B

01/01/1994
Book Early Version, Partial Manuscript

360-page draft with introductory information of book, Table of Contents and a Preface, while a number of chapters are presented by their title page only. The chapters included in an early draft form have the following titles: Chapter 1: Hoshoi’s Dream; Chapter 2: The Pattern Language; Stage 3: Flags; Stage 4: Building Designs, Stage 7: The Claws of System B, two versions of Chapter Four: Pinnacle – The Life of the Complete Project; Part Three: Injection of System A into Western Democracy, and Chapter Five: The Future of Architecture.

Authors:
Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Gary Black, Hisae Hosoi, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.