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

An approximately 900-page complete working-manuscript, with double-sided printing, and double column page layout; organized in five parts with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Part One – The Nature of Order: 1. What is Order; 2. The Idea of “Life”; 3. The Wholeness Which Exists in Things; 4. The Fiels of Centers; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. The Fifteen Properties in Nature; 7. Life Emerges from the Field
Part Two – The Ground: 8. The Mirror of the Self; 9. Pure Unity; 10. Color and Inner Light; 11. The “I”; 12. The Personal Nature of Order
Part Three – The Art of Building: 13. Outline of the Art of Building; 14. A Worked Example; 15. The Process of Unfolding; 16. Identifying the Major Centers which will Create the Field; 17. The Process of Creating Smaller Centers; 18. Actual Making: Creating the Smallest Centers
Part Four – Unifying Space: 19. Always Making Larger Wholes; 20. Unifying Space by making Wholes; 21. Wholeness-Preserving Transformations; 22. The Deep Feeling which Guides the Process; 23. Simplicity and Symmetry; 24. Emergence of a Being; 25. The Face of God
Book Five – Cosmology: 26. The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue: the Art of Building.

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