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 Preface and Epilogue

01/01/1988
Book Early Version, Complete Manuscript

916-page complete working-manuscript with double-sided printing, used also as a review-copy; organized in five parts with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building.
Part One – The Nature of Order: 1. What is Order; 2. The Idea of “Life”; 3. The Field of Centers; 4. How Life Comes About; 5. Fifteen Comments of the Fields; 6. Wholeness as it Appears in Nature; 7. Unity of Ornament and Function: The Awakening of Space; 8. The Nature of Space and Matter
Part Two – The Ground: 9. The Personal Nature of Order; 10. The Mirror of the Self; 11. Pure Unity: A Thousand Mirrors of the Self; 12. Color and Inner Light; 13. The “I”
Part Three – The Necessity of Process: 14. The Necessity of Process; 15. First Example of a Building Process; 16. Choosing the Right Centers; 17. The General Process of Creating Centers; 18. Actual Making; 19. The Role of Money; 20. The Sequence of Unfolding
Part Four – Deep Feeling: 21. Always making Larger Wholes; 22. Wholeness Preserving Transformations; 23. The Deep Feeling Which Must Guide the Process; 24. Emergence of the Being Nature; 25. Simplicity and Symmetry; 26. The Face of God
Part Five – Cosmology: 27. The Nature of the Universe.
Epilogue.

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