The Nature of Order – An essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Sep. 1984 version. It is organized in three parts; I. Cosmology, II. Foundations of the Art of Building, and III. Cosmology
01/09/198455-page sketch of a draft; clear copy with no corrections. It states “This is a summary of a book expected to be about 1000 pages long. The book contains thirteen chapters.” Table of Contents is organized in three parts as follows:
I. Cosmology: 1. The Nature of Order
II. Foundations of the Art of Building: 2. The Phenomenon of Wholeness; 3. The Mirror of the Self; 4. Fifteen Types of Glue; 5. Function and Ornament; 6. The Field of Centers; 7. Color and Inner Light; 8. Substance and Construction; 9. Structure-Preserving Transformations; 10. Simplicity and Symmetry; 11. The Mirror of the Self; 12. Not Separateness
III. Cosmology: 13. The Nature of the Universe.
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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 ...