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
01/01/1988916-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.
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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 ...