Go BackSome Sober Reflections on the Nature of Architecture in Our Time
Christopher Alexander’s response to a Commentary, written by Willam Saunders, articulating his dissatisfaction with the article. The response includes: 1) Forward which tells that the article is in reply to the Commentary published by Architectural Record in 2002. 2) An Objective Criterion of Architectural Value. 3) The Lack of Shared Canon of Value. 4) The Concept of Wholeness. 5) A Vision of Architecture as a Discipline Which Heals the World. 6) Great Changes Coming in the Discipline of Architecture: The Idea of Healing. 7) What Then, are the Implications of Wholeness Based Architecture on Our Prevailing Architectural Values.
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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
01/01/2002
“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
01/01/2002
“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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Four - The Luminous Ground
01/01/2004
“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...
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