Book Four presents a new cosmology that arises from the careful study of architecture and art, and above all from the practice of the arts. It is a cosmology which places the I, our experience of self, as the linking stem that unites each individual with the whole, connecting consciousness and matter.
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 professor Emeritus and the University of California, Berkeley.
Title: The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, Book 4: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Bk. 4
Author: Alexander, Christopher
ISBN: 9780972652940
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Publisher: Center for Environmental Structure
Publication Date: 2004-07-15
Number of Pages: 356
Weight: 0.7486 kg
... 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
