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Christopher Alexander and His Life?s Work: The Nature of Order

Bin Jiang    

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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, but also on his new organic cosmology.

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