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.

Content of

Published Book

The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth - A Struggle Between Two World-Systems 01/01/2012

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Maggie Moore Alexander

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The ninth and last volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is the “The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth – A Struggle between Two World-Systems”. The book puts ...