The Nature of Order – An essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Complete early version manuscript, organized in five parts with a Preface and an Epilogue

01/01/1986
Book Early Version, Complete Manuscript

Approximately 1000-page document in two volumes, used as a class reader. Both volumes were in the Department of Environmental Design library of the UC Berkeley, titled “a Wurster Hall Library copy #10”. Organized in five parts, with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building.
Part I – Structure of the Nature of Order: 1. The Nature of Order; 2. Wholeness; 3. The Mirror of the Self; 4. Ornamental Order; 5. Functional Order; 6. The Field of Centers.
Part II – Creation of Order: 7. Structure-Preserving Transformations; 8. The Process of Creating Centers; 9. The Process of Making; 10. The General Process.
Part III – Personal Nature of Order: 11. The Personal Nature of Order; 12. Depth of Feeling: The Wholeness of the Object and the Wholeness of the Person.
Part IV – Transcendent Nature of Order: 13. The Realm Beyond; 14. Color and Inner Light; 15. Emergence of a Being; 16. Simplicity and Nothing; 17. Not-Separateness.
Part V – Cosmology: 18. The Nature of the Universe.
Epilogue.

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