Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Christopher Alexande
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A Pattern Language
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an …
The Timeless Way of Building
The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of …
The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order, Book 1
In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this …
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening …
The Nature of Order (4 volume set)
Christopher Alexander's four volume masterwork, the result of twenty-seven years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on …
Fantasy/Animation
This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and …
The Making of Europe
In this work, Christopher Dawson concludes that the period of the 4th to the 11th centuries, commonly known as the Dark Ages, was not a barren prelude to the creative energy of the …
The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth
The purpose of all architecture, writes Christopher Alexander, is to encourage and support life-giving activity, dreams, and playfulness. But in recent decades, while our buildings …
How to be British Collection Two
This spiral hardback book features 32 postcards which depict the endearing and enduring characteristics of the British. New revised edition.
Liberty : The Evolution of an Idea
How has the idea of liberty developed and evolved over the centuries? What does freedom mean for us today and what do we need to do in order to preserve the freedoms for which …
The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order, Book 2
Christopher Alexander's masterwork, the result of 27 years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a …