Arch. 207, Fall 1980 – Seminar on Advanced Topics on Geometry and Wholeness: Handouts and brief essays on wholeness, centers, centering process, simplicity seeking process and not-separateness
01/09/1980Fifty four pages with a mixture of notes from a seminar held by Christopher Alexander with Artemis Anninou, Hajo Neis and Nili Portugali, on the following topics: 1) On wholeness and the process to attain it, 13-Oct-1980; 2) On the different ways – “plateaus” for communicating what wholeness is, 20-Oct-1980; 3) On the process which generates wholeness, 27-Oct-1980; 4) The concept of a whole and wholeness; 5) On centers and the centering process; 6) How does the centering process help on the laying-out of part of the Moshav Shorashim; 7) Questions concerning the “entities” and centering with an example. .
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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 ...