'Seeing the fact that most of our contemporary ways of dealing with architecture have been insane, I turned my back on them, and started from scratch. ... It has grown, and now may be called a coherent view of what architecture ought to mean.' C.A.

Christopher Alexander
THE NATURE OF ORDER

Book I - The Phenomenon Of Life
Book II - The Process Of Creating Life
Book III - A Vision Of A Living World
Book IV - The Luminous Ground



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Here is acclaimed architect Christopher Alexander's four-volume masterwork: the result of 27 years of research and a lifetime of profoundly original thinking.

Consider three vital perspectives on our world:

  • A scientific perspective
  • A perspective based on beauty and grace
  • A commonsense perspective based on our intuitions about everyday life.

Neither scientists, nor mystics, nor architects, nor politicians have so far found a single view of the world in which the three are united.

This groundbreaking work allows us to form one picture of the world in which all three perspectives are interlaced. It opens the door to 21st-century science and cosmology.