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 four Parts, with Preface and Cosmology as the Epilogue
01/01/1992830-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, with two major parts each and a last section on Cosmology with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Book One – Order: Prologue: The Nature of Order
Part One – The Structure of Life in Buildings: 1. The Phenomenon of Life; 2. The Wholeness which Exists in Things; 3. Unfolding Wholeness; 4. How Life Comes About: The Recursive Nature of a Center; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. A New View of Nature; 7. The Awakening of Space
Part Two – The Personal Ground: 8. Scientific Method: 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; Prologue: The Nature of Process
Part Three – The Process of Unfolding: 12. The Necessity of Progress; 13. Elementary Example of a Building Process; 14. The Fundamental Process; 15. The Process Before Design; 16. Volume and Site Design; 17. Working Out the Structure; 18. The Process of Construction; 19. Actual Making: Creation of the smallest Centers; 20. Simplicity
Part Four – The Luminous Ground: 21. The ‘I’; 22. Deep Feeling: How Feeling Guides the Process; 23. Color and Inner Light; 24. Emergence of a Being; 25. 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: 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 ...
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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 five Parts, with Preface and Cosmology as the last section
01/01/1993
Approximately 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 ...