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Nature of Order, Book Three: A Vision of a Living World: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

Contributor(s): Alexander, Christopher (Author)

ISBN: 9780972652933

Publisher: Center for Environmental Structure

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Pub Date: March 1, 2005

Dewey: 720

LCCN: 2002154267

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.39" H x 11.06" L x 7.62" W ( 3.92 lbs) 682 pages

Series: Nature of Order

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Description: Includes hundreds of photographic examples of buildings, public places, streets, rooms and gardens, most built by Alexander and his colleagues, in a great variety of cultures, showing how buildings and details governed by living process will be connected to human feeling, and what shape they must have.

Review Quotes: ...Alexander's approach presents a fundamental challenge to us and our style-obsessed age. It suggests that beautiful form can come about only through a process that is meaningful to people...""- Thomas Fisher, Former Editor, Progressive Architecture;

""Alexander's genetic scripts are likely to... play a role so fundamental in the future, that their widespread use cannot even be imagined today. This will change the world as effectively as the advent of printing changed the world.""- Doug Carlston, Co-founder, Broderbund Software, Founder & CEO, icPlanet.com;

""...I can think of no one, certainly no one in the last thirty or so years, who has produced a deeper, more profoundly meaningful, visionary and lasting body of work that both unifies and transcends science and spirituality, than Christopher Alexander.""- Andy Ilachinsky, Theoretical Physicist;

""Five hundred years is a long time, and I don't expect that many of the people I interview will be known in the year 2500. Alexander may be an exception.""- David Creelman, Author, Interviewer, and Editor, HR Magazine""...I believe Alexander is likely to be remembered most of all, in the end, for having produced the first credible proof of the existence of God...""- Eric Buck, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky - -

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