The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe; early version manuscript, organized in five parts with Preface and Epilogue
01/01/1990A 924-page 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 Wholeness which Exists in Things; 3. How Life Comes About; 4. The Idea of ‘Life’; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. The Awakening of Space; 7. Wholeness as an Essential Part of Nature
Part Two – The Ground: 8. Feeling and Order; 9. The Mirror of the Self; 10. A Thousand Mirrors of the Self; 11. Color and Inner Light; 12. Actual Making
Part Three – The Necessity of Process: 13. The Necessity of Process; 14. First Example of a Building Process; 15. Choosing the Right Centers; 16. The General Process of Creating Centers; 17. Actual Making
Part Four – Unifying Space: 18. The Deep Feeling which Must Guide the Process; 19. The Sequence of Unfolding; 20. Always Making Larger Wholes; 21. Wholeness Preserving Transformations; 22. Emergence of a Being; 23. Simplicity and Symmetry; 24. The Face of God
Book Five – Cosmology: 25. The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue – The Art of Building (not included in the text)
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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 ...