Description
Book SynopsisIncludes 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.
Trade Review... 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
Table of ContentsPart One 1. Our Present Picture of the Universe 2. Clues from the History of Art 3. The Existence of an 'I' 4. The Ten Thousand Beings 5. The Practical Matter of Forging a Living Center Mid-Book Appendix: Recapitulation of the Argument
Part Two 6. The Blazing One 7. Color and Inner Light 8. The Goal of Tears 9. Making Wholeness Heals the Maker 10. Pleasing Yourself 11. The Face of God
