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, Chapters 1 to 5

01/01/2000

Book Draft, Partial Manuscript

192-page partial draft of Book 3: A Vision of a Living World, which includes the following chapters:
Preface – Introduction: The Fundamental Process Repeated Ten Million Times
Part One – Belonging in the World: 1. Chapter 1: Belonging and Not Belonging; 2. Chapter 2: How Building Process Generates – Our Belonging to the World
Part Two: 3. Chapter 3: How Living Process Generates – A Positive Pattern of Space and Volume in Three Dimensions on the Land; Chapter 4: How Living Process Will Generate – Hulls of Public Space; 5. Chapter 5: How Living Process Generates – The Form of Public Buildings and one page from Chapter 11, renamed as Chapter 6 including only the “Letter to a Reader”.
Laid out in double column text with color images as the published book, with variations on the chapter titles, inserted notes and text editing; dates on chapters vary between 1999 and 2000. Using publisher information for Oxford University Press.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Published 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 01/01/2005

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

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

“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, ...