The Nature of Order: Chapter 5 – Function and Ornament
01/01/1986Approximately 300 pages comprising a collection of roughly six versions, some partial and some more complete, which discuss the concept of “Functional Order and the Fifteen properties”. With references to concepts like: “Archetypal Functions”, “Functional Order”, “The Fifteen Properties in Town”, “The Fifteen Properties in Nature”, “The Fifteen Properties in Buildings”, “The Fifteen Properties in Building Details”, “Human Cognition”, “Beyond Ornament and Beyond Function: The Unity of Space”. In one of the versions the description integrates the concept of patterns; with handwritten notes and printed images in one of them.
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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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