Go BackThe Nature of Order: Complete early version manuscript
01/01/1986Approximately 1200-page complete manuscript with one page at the beginning with notes on improvements to be made; in five parts with an epilogue.
Preface: The Art of Building; Part I: Structural Nature of Order; Part II: Creation of Order; Part III: Personal Nature of Order; Part IV: Transcendent Nature of Order; V. Cosmology: The Nature of the Universe and Epilogue.
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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 - 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
01/09/1984
55-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 ...
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The Nature of Order: Chapter 5 - Function and Ornament
01/01/1986
Approximately 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 ...
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The Nature of Order: Chapter 6 - Color and Inner Light
01/01/1986
Approximately 420 pages comprising a collection of eight versions, some incomplete and some more complete, discussing the concept of “Color and Inner Light”. Defining “inner Light” and developing the process of creating wholeness with color, a “Geometry of Color” .
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