Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: structure, series, environmental, center, experiment, oregon
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1975-12-11
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0195018249
ISBN-13: 9780195018240

Focusing on a plan for an extension to the University of Oregon, this book shows how any community the size of a university or small town might go about designing its own future environment with all members of the community participating personally or by representation. It is a brilliant companion volume to A Pattern Language.

Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: CES Publishing
Keywords: book, order, nature, ground, luminous
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2003-11
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0972652949
ISBN-13: 9780972652940

The foundations of modern scientific thought, four centuries old, are firmly rooted in a conception that the universe is a machinelike entity, a play of baubles, -machines, trinkets. Quantum mechanics and biology have begun to change this way of thinking, but even to this day, our real daily experience of ourselves as we actually are, has no clear place in science. No wonder that a machinelike world-view has supported the deadly architecture of the last century.Alexander breaks away completely from the one-sided mechanical model; he shows us conclusively that the emergence of every act from a

Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Center for Environmental Structure
Keywords: nature, order, building, universe, flexible, art, book, creating, life, process, essay
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0972652922
ISBN-13: 9780972652926

The processes of nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, each one beautiful. The same is true for daffodils, streams, and stars. But man-made creations-especially the towns and buildings of the 20th century-have only occasionally been really good, more often mediocre, and in the last 50 years have very often been deadly. What is the reason for the difference?In Book 2, Alexander explains in detail the kinds of process that are capable of generating living structure. The unfolding of living structure in natural systems is compared to the unfolding of buildings and to

Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: paperbacks, harvard, form, synthesis, notes
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1964-10-24
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674627512
ISBN-13: 9780674627512

"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional unselfconscio

Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: CES Publishing
Keywords: nature, order, building, art, universe, book, life, phenomenon, essay
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0972652914
ISBN-13: 9780972652919

What is happening when a place in the world has life? And what is happening when it does not? In Book 1 of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and sets this understanding of living structure as an intellectual basis for a new architecture.He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature, and in cities and streets of the past, but have all but disappeared

Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: building, way, timeless
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1979
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195024028
ISBN-13: 9780195024029

This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander’s seminal trilogy on architecture (continued in A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment). Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding two books.

Author: Christopher Alexander Berg
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Keywords: pharaoh, psalms
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2010-05-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 192658581X
ISBN-13: 9781926585819

A collection of madness, bleeding... through the end of an empty pen. Psalms of the Pharaoh could be considered as THE poetry book from hell. Each page is like a scream and within that scream a message... a cry, a scar. This book isn’t for everyone, however, it touches all the things we as a people face everyday. Rather it be inner battles, spiritual warfare, political lies and every sense of feeling in between. No stone remains uncovered. Guaranteed to turn heads, widen eyes and make jaws drop... Psalms of the Pharaoh gives a whole new meaning to controversy and puts poetry right bac