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
01/01/1986Approximately 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.
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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 ...