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 _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
