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George Bernard Shaw

Tag Archives: Wholeness

Greg Bryant on Generative Sequences

Published: February 18, 2022
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I feel that generative sequences are one of the most overlooked and valuable discoveries in Christopher Alexander’s work. When you learn to see them for what they are you can find examples of them everywhere and then you can increasingly notice when/where they are missing. I have adopted an attitude in which I assume that […]

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The Edge of Something

Published: July 7, 2020
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This comes to me to compliment an impoverished philosophy. “I feel I am on the edge of something …” David Bohm

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Living Structure in Japanese Katana

Published: June 24, 2018
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Spaces for the Soul (a Ruth Landy documentary about Christopher Alexander)

Published: May 29, 2018
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Dear Ruth, thank you for this precious work, it is vital that this story be told, and  for it to be told it is vital that it be available. While I understand your motivation for having it taken down, please don’t. Please let it live and ripple.

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Christopher Alexander – Value as a Matter of Fact

Published: March 26, 2018
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one of the most fundamental tenets of contemporary science – that value is not part of science and tht all matter is, from a scientific point of view, equally value free – can no longer be sustained

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Christopher Alexander – The Character of Living Structure

Published: March 26, 2018
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In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness … creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.

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Christopher Alexander – The Idea of Wholeness

Published: January 7, 2018
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The pictures embedded in this excerpt (and their locations in it) were drawn (and placed) by me in an attempt to replicate those that are presented in the book (and should therefore not be considered as belonging to the original work). “Intuitively we may guess that the beauty of a building, its life, and its […]

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