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Making Better Worlds: Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order

Christopher Alexander, 2002-05. The Nature of Order, Books 1-4: The Phenomenon of Life; The Process of Creating Life; A Vision of a Living World; The Luminous Ground. Berkeley, CA: Center for Environmental Structure. Reviewed by David Seamon, Architecture Department, Kansas State University, 211 Seaton Hall, Manhattan, KS. 66506-2901 USA. Tel 1-785-532-5953. www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon; triad@ksu.edu. °°°° We […] read more

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Some Sober Reflections on the Nature of Architecture in Our Time

by Christopher Alexander FOREWORD The following commentary is based upon a letter I wrote in response to William Saunders of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Saunders wrote a review of Book I of The Nature of Order that I felt completely failed to grasp the ideas behind it. Indeed he did not even discuss those […] read more