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BOOKSTORE |
We have opened a bookstore. Here's the list of what is available immediately. If you would like a more complete listing of reference material, or information about material available in other languages, unpublished working papers, design plans, speeches, newspaper articles, and films, let us know. You may find it helpful to visit the Archive on-line. |
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A PATTERN LANGUAGE |
Price: $ 60.00 |
Description: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein with Ingrid king, Shlomo Angel and Max Jacobsen, 1141 pages
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THE NATURE OF ORDER: FOUR BOOKS: |
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BOOK 1: THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE |
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BOOK 2: THE PROCESS OF CREATING LIFE |
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BOOK 3: A VISION OF A LIVING WORLD |
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BOOK 4: THE LUMINOUS GROUND |
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Price: $150.00 |
Description: A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art, The Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets by Christopher Alexander, 352 pages, profusely illustrated in high quality color, one of the great collections of early Turkish carpets with highly detailed descriptions of geometry and structure with hypotheses to explain their emotional and spiritual force.
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Price: $42.00 |
Description: The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander, 666 pages.This volume provides the opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal series on architecture. Here he provides a fascinating introduction to the ideas behind the succeeding books. |
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Price: $36.00 |
Description: The Production of Houses, by Christopher Alexander, 250 pages |
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Price: $36.00 |
Description: The Oregon Experiment, by Christopher Alexander, 190 pages. Focusing on a plan for an extension to the University of Oregon, this book shows how any community the size of a university or small town might go about designing its own future environment with all members of the community participating personally or by representation. |
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Price: $35.00 |
Description: The Mary Rose Museum, by Christopher Alexander, with Gary Black and Miyoko Tsutsui, 128 pages. A renowned architect offers an original, innovative vision for a museum to house Henry VIII's great warship, the Mary Rose, that combines respect for nature and the past with the architecture and technology of the future. |
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Price: $45.00 |
Description: A New Theory of Urban Design, by Christopher Alexander, 251 pages |
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Price: $16.95 |
Description: Notes on the Synthesis of Form, by Christopher Alexander, 175 pages |
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| COMING SOON: ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND PAPERS |
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| Description: 1996 OOPSLA KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Origins of Pattern Theory, the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World by Christopher Alexander, 25 pages |
A NEW WAY OF LOOKING |
| Description:A New Way of Looking by Christopher Alexander, reprinted from HALI magazine, a summary of Alexander's views on oriental carpets, profuse illustration in color, color Xerox copies, 12 pages |
THE LAWS OF ARCHITECTURE FROM A PHYSICIST'S PERSPECTIVE by Nikos Salingaros |
MINI NEIGHBORHOODS - HIGH QUALITY HOUSES WHICH THE AVERAGE FAMILY CAN AFFORD |
MEXICALI REVISITED |
THE GRASS ROOTS HOUSING PROCESS |
CAN A HOUSEWIFE DESIGN A HOME |
A CITY IS NOT A TREE |
WEAVING AS LITURGY, by John Eskenazi |
THE REVOLUTIONARY ARCHITECT by Joel Garreau |
REBIRTH OF THE INNER CITY, THE NORTH OMAHA PLAN |
PEOPLE REBUILDING BERKELEY. THE SELF-CREATING LIFE OF NEIGHBORHOODS. |
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE by Ingrid King |