Go BackThe Nature of Order: Chapter 13 – The Power of the Field
01/01/1986Approximately 500 pages comprising a collection of ten versions of essays written in different times and showing the evolution of Christopher Alexander’s thoughts on the subject of the “Transcendent Nature of Order” as it appears on the various general titles of the versions: 1. One version is named “Process”; 2. Two more are named “Ground”; 3. Three are named “Transcendent Nature” and 4. Four have the general title of “Transcendent Nature of Order”.
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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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