The Phenomenon of Life: Nature of Order, Book 1: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
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Автор | | Christopher Alexander |
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Содержание:
Баллада о солдате, крадущем шинели, Весна в белой мечети, Волшебник изумрудного города, Габу-чеканщик, Гости, Дима, Калашников, Кикеро, Командир полка, Майевтика, или три разговора о войне, прогрессе и типа того, Метан, Несгибаемая рота, Ночь Ивана Купала, Пан та собака, Плевое дело, Пол Партии, Служение рядового Сергиенко, Халява, Чапаев и Мы, Чепэнапэхэдэ, Солдат Шумякин
Описание:
What is happening when a place in the world has life? And what is happening when it does not? In Book 1 of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and sets this understanding of living structure as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature, and in cities and streets of the past, but have all but disappeared in the deadly developments and buildings of the last one hundred years. The book shows that living structure depends on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being. The other three volumes of The Nature of Order continue this thesis with three complementary views giving a masterful...Похожие книги
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