A vision of a living world
Book - 2005
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- Published
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Berkeley, Calif. :
Center for Environmental Structure
c2005.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Physical Description
- x, 697 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780972652933
9780972652902
- Book 1. The Phenomenon of Life
- Prologue to Books 1-4
- The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
- Preface: On Order
- Part 1.
- 1. The Phenomenon of Life
- 2. Degrees of Life
- 3. Wholeness and the Theory of Centers
- 4. How Life Comes From Wholeness
- 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties
- 6. The Fifteen Properties in Nature
- Part 2.
- 7. The Personal Nature of Order
- 8. The Mirror of the Self
- 9. Beyond Descartes: A New Form of Scientific Observation
- 10. The Impact of Living Structure on Human Life
- 11. The Awakening of Space
- Conclusion
- Appendices. Mathematical Aspects of Wholeness and Living Structure
- Book 2. The Process of Creating Life
- Preface: On Process
- Part 1. Structure-Preserving Transformations
- 1. The Principle of Unfolding Wholeness
- 2. Structure-Preserving Transformations
- 3. Structure-Preserving Transformations in Traditional Society
- 4. Structure-Destroying Transformations in Modern Society
- Interlude
- 5. Living Process in the Modern Era: Twentieth-Century Cases Where Living Process Did Occur
- Part 2. Living Processes
- 6. Generated Structure
- 7. A Fundamental Differentiating Process
- 8. Step-by-Step Adaptation
- 9. Each Step is Always Helping to Enhance the Whole
- 10. Always Making Centers
- 11. The Sequence of Unfolding
- 12. Every Part Unique
- 13. Patterns: Generic Rules for Making Centers
- 14. Deep Feeling
- 15. Emergence of Formal Geometry
- 16. Form Language and Style
- 17. Simplicity
- Part 3. A New Paradigm for Process in Society
- 18. Encouraging Freedom
- 19. Massive Process Difficulties
- 20. The Spread of Living Processes Throughout Society: Making the Shift to the New Paradigm
- 21. The Role of the Architect in the Third Millenium
- Conclusion
- Appendix. A Small Example of a Living Process
- Book 3. A Vision of a Living World
- Preface: Living Processes Repeated Ten Million Times
- Part 1.
- 1. Belonging and Not-Belonging
- 2. Our Belonging to the World
- Part 2.
- 3. The Hulls of Public Space
- 4. Large Public Buildings
- 5. The Positive Pattern of Space and Volume in Three Dimensions on the Land
- 6. Positive Space in Engineering Structure and Geometry
- 7. The Character of Gardens
- Part 3.
- 8. People Forming a Collective Vision for Their Neighborhood
- 9. Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood
- 10. High-Density Housing
- 11. Necessary Further Dynamics of Any Neighborhood Which Comes to Life
- Part 4.
- 12. The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds
- 13. The Character of Rooms
- Part 5.
- 14. Construction Elements as Living Centers
- 15. All Building as Making
- 16. Continuous Invention of New Materials and Techniques
- 17. Production of Giant Projects
- Part 6.
- 18. Ornament as a Part of All Unfolding
- 19. Color Which Unfolds from the Configuration
- The Morphology of Living Architecture
- Conclusion: The World Created and Transformed
- Appendix on Number
- Book 4. The Luminous Ground
- Preface: Toward a New Conception of the Nature of Matter
- Part 1.
- 1. Our Present Picture of the Universe
- 2. Clues from the History of Art
- 3. The Existence of an "I"
- 4. The Ten-Thousand Beings
- 5. The Practical Matter of Forging a Living Center
- Mid-Book Appendix: Recapitulation of the Argument
- Part 2.
- 6. The Blazing One
- 7. Color and Inner Light
- 8. The Goal of Tears
- 9. Making Wholeness Heals the Maker
- 10. Pleasing Yourself
- 11. The Face of God
- Conclusion to Books 1-4
- A Modified Picture of the Universe
- Epilogue: Empirical Certainty and Enduring Doubt
- Acknowledgements