Go BackRhythm and Oneness
01/04/197784-page student paper submitted for the Comprehensive Examination, with Christopher Alexander and Jean Pierre Protzen as advisors. Organized in two parts, addressing the given themes: 1) Gives an account of the geometric properties required to bring an ornament, or a building, to a state of “oneness”, and tries to “give some unifying account of these properties which treats them all from a single point of view”, and 2) Elaborates on the account of oneness which was given in part one, analyzing the phenomenon of rhythm with reference to the actions an artist, or architect, might take, in order to produce this phenomenon in a final object.
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
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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
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