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Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)

Christopher Alexander Harvard University Press Harvard University Press
"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of...
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The Phenomenon of Life: Nature of Order, Book 1: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (The Nature of Order)

Christopher Alexander Center for Environmental Structure Center for Environmental Structure
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...
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The Process of Creating Life: Nature of Order, Book 2: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (The Nature of Order)(Flexible)

Christopher Alexander Center for Environmental Structure Center for Environmental Structure
The processes of nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, each one beautiful. The same is true for daffodils, streams, and stars. But man-made creations-especially the towns and buildings of the 20th century-have only...
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The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, Book 4

Christopher Alexander CES Publishing CES Publishing
The foundations of modern scientific thought, four centuries old, are firmly rooted in a conception that the universe is a machinelike entity, a play of baubles, -machines, trinkets. Quantum mechanics and biology have begun to change this way of...
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Street Shop Tattoo Stencils: Creating New Designs for Skin Art

Brian E. Johnson, Christopher Aaron Alexander Schiffer Publishing Schiffer Publishing
Learn the proper techniques in creating and applying a tattoo stencil through an illustrated step-by-step guide. A gallery of original illustrations created by the authors for their clients, displays the new direction of skin art from an artist's...
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Disney's Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear

Christopher Robin Finch Disney Editions Disney Editions
For those who wish to revisit the Hundred-Acre Wood with Pooh, Tigger, Roo, Piglet, ad others, this book is their first-class ticket. With thoughtful text from Christopher Finch, lavish artwork from the Disney archives, and some of E.H. Shepards...
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The authors reply.: An article from: The Art Bulletin

Alexander Nagel, Christopher S. Wood Thomson Gale Thomson Gale
This digital document is an article from The Art Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3692 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML...
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Feelings Always Local

Arjun Appadurai, Joke Brouwer, Mike Davis, Alexander Galloway, Tijs Goldschmidt, Christopher Kelty, Karim Nader, Loretta Napoleoni, Christa Sommerer, Gijs van Oenen, Arjen Mulder NAi Publishers/V2_Organization NAi Publishers/V2_Organization
Interactive art organizes itself as an open system: it preserves its coherence by exchanging matter, energy, and information with the environment. In that manner, interactive art is art whose state of rest must be disturbed before it can become art...
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