books by Center for Environmental Structure

books by Center for Environmental Structure

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Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction

Nikos A. Salingaros

Center for Environmental Structure, 2006

Responsive Arguments for a Better Future
Extract from a review in Vol 1, Issue 2 of Archnet--IJAR, July 2007 In this book, Nikos A. Salingaros sets the stage for a new thinking about the current status of architecture. Twelve essays critically analyze evolutionary aspects of modernism and post-Modernism, ...

The Process of Creating Life: Nature of Order, Book 2: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the ...

Christopher Alexander

Center for Environmental Structure, 2004

A Landmark Book
Review by Nikos A. Salingaros. PART A. REVIEW FOR ARCHITECTS. Contemporary architecture is increasingly grounded in science and mathematics. Architectural discourse has shifted radically from the sometimes disorienting Derridean deconstruction, to engaging scientific ...

The Phenomenon of Life: Nature of Order, Book 1: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the ...

Christopher Alexander

Center for Environmental Structure, 2004

This book changed the way I look at everything...
As a total amateur, I have no design training. I am fascinated by architecture and design, but really only "know what I like". I read "A Pattern Language" when working on object oriented computer systems and find it fascinating - I still re-read it. So, when I saw ...

The Nature of Order (4 volume set)

Christopher Alexander

Center for Environmental Structure, 2004

A Profoundly Eloquent Glimpse of Life's Depth...
*** Original review: May 20, 2004 *** Those who know me know that I am not prone to making either quick judgements or vacuous statements, so my friends (at least) will know that both the title of this mini-review and the few words that follow are far from whimsical: ...

A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3

Christopher Alexander

Center for Environmental Structure, 2004

A practical approach to reinventing human habitats
Alexander's long-awaited third book in the four-volume Nature of Order series finally provides a practical guide to creating great places based on his concepts of "centers", "wholeness" and "structure-preserving transformations." Page after page of photos and ...