Tag Archives: Wholeness
Living Structure in Japanese Katana
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Spaces for the Soul (a Ruth Landy documentary about Christopher Alexander)
nDear 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 – The Character of Living Structure
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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.
Posted in AltEco, Design, Expanding, inside, Nature of Order, Nature Of Order Book 1, outside
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Christopher Alexander – The Idea of Wholeness
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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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