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  1. 4 primary works • 4 total works. Book 1. The Phenomenon of Life. by Christopher W. Alexander. 4.48 · 341 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions. In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander de… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. The Process of Creating Life. by Christopher W. Alexander.

  2. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (ISBN 0-9726529-0-6) is a four-volume work by the architect Christopher Alexander published in 2002–2004. In his earlier work, Alexander attempted to formulate the principles that lead to a good built environment as patterns , or recurring design solutions.

  3. The Nature of Order. published by the Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California. Synopsis. 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.

  4. Taken together the four books redefine the cosmology that provides architecture with its underpinning; they redefine the procedures of planning, design and building; they redefine the style, the shapes of buildings and the forms of construction.

  5. Jan 15, 2021 · Backing out after a thousand pages of theory, I try to provide a conceptual view of what we’ve encountered so far as Alexander builds his picture of the universe and architecture in Books One and...

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  6. Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of...

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  8. Jun 30, 2005 · 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...

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