Christopher Alexander\'s series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns.
A step has been taken, through which these two domains the domain of geo.
Taken as a whole, the four books create a sweeping new conception of the Nature of things which is both objective and structural (hence part of science) and also personal (in that it shows how and why things have the power to touch the human heart).
The seven hundred pictures of Alexander\'s buildings and works of art shown in this Book demonstrate in detail what he means.
Places created by Living process (Book 2) have Living structure (Book 1), and they connect us to our essence as people (Book 4).
The Book is a feast for the eyes, and mind, and heart.
With these examples, lay people, architects, builders, artists, and students are able to make this new framework real for themselves, understand how it works, and understand its significance.
Many of the examples are built by Alexander and his colleagues; other buildings explored take us around the world and through time.
New forms for large buildings, public spaces, communities, neighborhoods, lead to discussions about equally important small scale of detail and ornament and colour.
Hundreds of examples of buildings and places are shown.
How are they made? The practical task of making beauty is the principal subject of this volume.
What is more, as we study them, we realize that they all share a similar geometry.
They connect us to our feelings.
They connect us to ourselves.
Places that reach an archetypal level of human experience, reaching across centuries, across continents, across cultures, across technology, across Building materials and climates.
The really good space.
The really good building.
Hundreds of photographs and plans of new buildings that have Living structure, and the processes which gave them life, demonstrate, for the first time, what the concept of Living structure can mean in buildings of our time and of the future.
From a practical point of view, A Vision of a Living World is the most compelling of the four books.
Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in all Order and in all life from micro-organisms and mountain ranges to good houses and vibrant communities.
Christopher Alexander\'s series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns
