In Book 3 of this four-volume work, Alexander presents hundreds of
his own buildings and those of other contemporaries who have used
methods consistent with the theory of living process.
Nearly seven hundred pages of projects, built and planned in
many countries over a thirty-year period, illustrate the impact of
living process on the world. The book provides the reader with an
intuitive feel for the kind of world, its style and geometry, which
is needed to generate living structure in the world and its
communities, together with its ecological and natural
character.
The projects include public buildings, neighborhoods, housing
built by people for themselves, public urban space, rooms, gardens,
ornament, colors, details of construction and construction
innovation. The many buildings shown, and the methods needed to
design and build these buildings, define living structure in a
practical way that can be understood and copied.
." . . Alexander's approach presents a fundamental challenge to
us and our style-obsessed age. It suggests that a beautiful form
can come about only through a process that is meaningful to people.
It also implies that certain types of processes, regardless of when
they occur or who does them, can lead to certain types of
forms."-Thomas Fisher, former editor of "Progressive
Architecture."
Christopher Alexander is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, architect, builder, and author of many books and
technical papers. He is the winner of the first medal for research
ever awarded by the American Institute of Architects, and Emeritus
Professor of Architecture at the University of California,
Berkeley, where he taught for 40 years.
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