The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe; complete early version manuscript, organized in four books with Preface and Epilogue

01/01/1988
Book Early Version, Complete Manuscript

1080-page complete working-manuscript with double-sided printing, used also as a review-copy with comments included; organized in four parts with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Book One – The Nature of Order: 1. What is Order; 2. The idea of “Life”; 3. The Wholeness which Exists in Things; 4. The Field of Centers: Degree of Wholeness as Degree of Life; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. The Fifteen Properties in Nature; 7. Each Thing has its Life
Book Two – The Ground: 8. Wholeness and Feeling: The Personal Nature of Order; 9. The Mirror of the Self; 10. Each Center is a Mirror of the Self; 11. Color and Inner Light; 12. The Ground of “I”
Book Three – The Art of Building: 13. Outline of the Art of Building: The Concept of a Single Fundamental Operation; 14. Always Preserve Wholeness; 15. The Process of Creating Centers; 16. The Craft of Making; 17. The Sequence of Unfolding; 18. Reach for Deep Feeling; 19. Emergence of a Being; 20. Life as Simplicity; 21. The Face of God
Book Four – Cosmology: 22. The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue.

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