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01/03/1983Various drafts summarizing the contents of each of the thirteen chapters of “The Nature of Order”, 63 pages in total. Contents: 1. Architecture and Cosmology; 2. The Phenomenon of Wholeness; 3. The Mirror of the Soul; 4. Fifteen Types of Glue; 5. Function and Ornament; 6. The Field of Centers; 7. The Process Creating Centers; 8. Structure Preserving Transformations and Local Symmetries; 9. The “Being” Nature; 10. Color and Inner Light; 11. Not Separateness; 12. Sketch of a New Cosmology; 13. The Process of Production.
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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: A list of twelve chapters with the numbered sections included in each chapter
01/01/1981
23-page document listing the twelve basic concepts referring to order and its nature, with each concept including a list of subjects to be further discussed and followed by a general list with 186 subjects in sequence and in reference to ...
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The Nature of Order and the Nature of the Universe: Chapter 11, Chapter 10, Conclusion
01/01/1981
142 pages on the concepts of “Not-Separateness”, the “Personal Nature of Not-Separateness, “The One” with notes on the “Phenomenon of Color” included in Chapter 11. Continuing with Chapter 10 and the concepts of “Extreme Simplicity”, “Egolessness”, “Formal and Informal” and ...
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The Nature of Order: Chapter 6: The Nature of a Being
01/01/1981
74 pages discussing the personal nature of the centering process: 1. The Origin of Personal Feeling; 2. Being Egoless – The Simple Heart; 3. The Being Nature of Space; 4. The Haunting Melody; 5. Each Center is a Living Being ...