Architect starts with idea that space makes life possible. Are you ready 
to have all that you know challenged?

Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic

First of a two-part series in which Art Critic Kenneth Baker sizes up 
the content and impact of architect Christopher Alexander's monumental 
four-volume series "The Nature of Order."

Reading the first book of Christopher Alexander's four-volume magnum 
opus "The Nature of Order" reduced me to silence. I went about my 
business for weeks afterward, unable to tell anyone how exciting and 
dismaying I found the ideas it contains.

The succeeding volumes as they appeared hammered home my conclusion that 
I would have to reckon professionally and publicly with this work and 
its author, whom I had met already once or twice.

cont'd...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/02/DDG3MGVUL449.DTL

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