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Richard P. Gabriel and Jenny Quillien
Beauty. Christopher Alexander?s prolific journey in building, writing, and teaching was fueled by a relentless search for Beauty and its meaning. While all around him the world was intent on figuring out how to simplify, Alexander came to embrace complex...
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Michael W. Mehaffy
Christopher Alexander published his longest and arguably most philosophical work, The Nature of Order, beginning in 2003. Early criticism assessed that text to be a speculative failure; at best, unrelated to Alexander?s earlier, mathematically grounded w...
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David Seamon
To identify and evaluate architect Christopher Alexander?s theory of wholeness, this article draws on the work of British philosopher J.G. Bennett, who developed a conceptual method?what he called systematics?to clarify phenomena by drawing upon the qual...
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Bin Jiang
This editorial briefly introduces Christopher Alexander, as a theorist, as a design practitioner, as an architect, and importantly as a scientist, as well as his life?s work?The Nature of Order?focusing not only on the trinity of wholeness, life, beauty,...
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Bin Jiang
Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: ?Far more small things than ...
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