The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order, Book 1: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe - Rilegato

Alexander, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0972652914 ISBN 13: 9780972652919

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2002

Riassunto

In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures 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 the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years.

This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.

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L'autore:

Christopher Alexander is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, architecture, builder and author of many books and technical papers. He is the winner of the first medal for research ever awarded by the American Institute of Architects, and after 40 years of teaching is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Contenuti:

Part One  1. The Phenomenon of Life  2. Degrees of Life  3.Wholeness and the Theory of Centers  4. How Life comes from Wholeness  5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties  6. The Fifteen Properties in Nature  Part Two  7. The Personal Nature of Order  8. The Mirror of the Self  9. Beyond Descartes: A New Form of Scientific Observation  10. The Impact of Living Structure on Human Life  11. The Awakening of Space  Appendices: Mathematical Aspects of Wholeness and Living Structure

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0972652914
• ISBN 13: 9780972652919
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 746