The Nature of Order: Iterations of Table of Contents, and Part 1 – Chapter 1 – What is Order
01/01/1987Approximately 500 pages, comprising a collection of nineteen versions of the Preface and of Chapter 1 of Part One on the topic of Order in Architecture, with three versions including Chapter 2 on Making Order. Preceding these versions, there are numerous Tables of Contents with variations on the topics included in each one. A few of the chapter versions include handwritten Tables of Comments and editing. Text has page numbers, section headings, and titles of images to be included .
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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: Iterations of Table of Contents, and Part 1 - Chapter 1 - What is Order
01/01/1987
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The Nature of Order: Iterations of Table of Contents, and Part 1 - Chapter 1 - What is Order
01/01/1987
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The Nature of Order: Iterations of Table of Contents, and Part 1 - Chapter 1 - What is Order
01/01/1987
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