Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order Alexander Christopher University of California Berkeley USA
Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order Alexander Christopher University of California Berkeley USA Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless…
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Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order Alexander Christopher University of California Berkeley USA
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. To this day, our real daily experience of ourselves has no clear place in science. 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.The foundations of modern scientific thought are firmly rooted in a conception that the universe is a machinelike entity, a play of baubles, machines, trinkets.
It is little wonder that a machinelike world-view has supported the deadly architecture of the last century. This