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Nature of Order: Christopher Alexander

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The Nature of Order published by the Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California Synopsis Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life Book 3: A Vision of a Living World Book 2: The Process of Creating Life Book 4: The Luminous Ground OVERVIEW Here is acclaimed architect Christopher Alexander's four-volume masterwork: the result of 27 years of research and a lifetime of profoundly original thinking. Alexander has advanced a new theory of architecture, matter, and organization, that has attracted thousands of readers and practical followers throughout the world. His grasp of the fundamental truths of traditional ways of building, and his understanding of what gives life and beauty and true functionality to towns and buildings, is put forth in a context that sheds light on the character of order in all phenomena. Taken even further, hundreds of examples are given to show how the theory has been put to use in his many projects around the world. The four books of The Nature o

OVERVIEW OF THE NATURE OF ORDER The Nature of Order published by the Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California --> "In the past century, architecture has always been a minor science - if it has been a science at all. . . Now, I believe we are entering a new era, when this relation between architecture and the physical sciences may be reversed - when the proper understanding of the deep questions of space, as they are embodied in architecture . . . will play a revolutionary role in the way we see the world . . . and may conceivably play a role for the world view of the 21st and 2

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