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 understanding of living structures 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 the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years.
This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.
- ISBN10 0972652914
- ISBN13 9780972652919
- Publish Date 30 June 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Center for Environmental Structure
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 746
- Language English