Go BackThe Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Complete early version manuscript, organized in two Books containing five Parts, with Preface and Cosmology as the last section
01/01/1993Approximately 750-page complete working-manuscript, organized in two Books and five Parts, with Appendices integrated into the chapters. The Table of Comments includes:
Preface – The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Book One – Order with Prologue: The Nature of Order
Part One – The Structure of Life in Buildings: 1. The Phenomenon of Life; 2. Degrees of Life; 3. The Theory of Centers; 4. Appearance of Life from Wholeness; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. A New View of Nature; 7. Awakening of Space
Part Two – The Personal Ground: 8. Beyond Descartes: The Measurement of Wholeness; 9. The Mirror of the Self; 10./ The Personal Nature of Order; 11. Ten Thousand Mirrors of the Self
Book Two – Process with Prologue: The Nature of Process
Part Three – The Process of Creating Life: 12. Dynamics of Wholeness: The Unfolding Whole; 13. Example of a Building Process; 14. The Necessity of Process; 15. Deep Feeling as a Crucial Guide; 16. The Fundamental Process; 17. The Construction Process in Society
Part Four – Details of the Building Process: 18. Pure Geometry; 19. Defining the Essential Centers; 20. Volume and Site Design; 21. Working out the Structure; 22. Actual Making; 23. Simplicity and Symmetry
Part Five – The Luminous Ground: 24. The ‘I’; 25. The Goal of Tears; 26. Color and Inner Light; 27. Emergence of a Being; 28. The Face of God
Cosmology: The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue: The Art of Building.
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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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Complete early version manuscript, organized in two Books containing four Parts, with Preface and Cosmology as the Epilogue
01/01/1992
830-page complete working-manuscript with comments and editing. On its front page it is stated “This draft manuscript is intended for discussion purposes only at the University of California and may not be copied or sold.” It is organized in two-books, ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Partial early version manuscript, organized in two Books containing six Parts, with a Preface and Epilogue
01/01/1993
620-page partial manuscript which includes the Preface, Book One, the Prologue to Book Two, a copy of Chapter Three corrected, and the four Appendices grouped under the title “On the Nature of Matter.” The complete manuscript is organized in two ...