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'This monumental work is the long awaited outcome of Christopher Alexander's reflections since the 1970s. No recent writer, I think, has viewed architecture so broadly, setting it in the context of all human making and living, and even of biology, cosmology and particle physics.' - Richard Padovan, The Architectural Review 'Alexander has a wonderful eye for the work of vernacular builders and anonymous artists.' - Richard Padovan, The Architectural Review
Table of ContentsPart 1 1. Our Belonging to the World: Part One 2. Our Belonging to the World: Part Two
Part 2 3. The Hulls of Public Space 4. The Form of Public Buildings 5. Production of Giant Projects 6. The Positive Pattern of Space and Volume in Three Dimensions of the Land 7. Positive Space in Structure and Materials 8. The Character of Gardens
Part 3 9. Forming a Collective Vision for a Neighbourhood 10. Reconstruction of an Urban Neighbourhood 11. High Density Housing 12. Further Dynamics of a Growing Neighbourhood
Part 4 13. The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds 14. The Character of Rooms
Part 5 15. Construction Elements as Living Centers 16. All Building as Making 17. Active Invention of New Building Techniques
Part 6 18. Ornament as a Part of All Unfolding 19. Color which Unfolds from the Configuration
Epilogue: The Morphology of Living Architecture
