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22 produkter
Nature of Order, Book Two: the Process of Creating Life
An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Inbunden, 2002
849 kr
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Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, …
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Inbunden, 1978
739 kr
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of …
The Timeless Way of Building
Inbunden, 1980
903 kr
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The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is …
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Häftad, 1964
308 kr
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“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 design.In the first part of the book, Christopher …
Unravelling the Silk Road
Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
Häftad, 2024
135 kr
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Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by …
Carpet Ride to Khiva
Seven Years on the Silk Road
Av Chris Aslan, Christopher Alexander
Häftad, 2010
144 kr
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The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote …
Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
E-bok, 2018
699 kr
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. …
The Oregon Experiment
Inbunden, 1978
874 kr
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After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, …
The Production of Houses
Inbunden, 1985
1461 kr
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As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment--defined a radical and fundamently new process of environmental design. Alexander now gives …
A New Theory of Urban Design
Av Christopher Alexander, Hajo Neis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1167 kr
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In this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natural growth, and suggests a set of rules and guidelines by which we can inject that `organic' character back into our High Streets, buildings, and …
Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
E-bok, 1977
699 kr
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. …
Nature of Order, Book Three: a Vision of a Living World
An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Inbunden, 2005
849 kr
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Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, …
Tunisia
From stability to revolution in the Maghreb
Inbunden, 2016
2519 kr
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The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds …
Tunisia
From stability to revolution in the Maghreb
Häftad, 2016
766 kr
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The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds …
Tunisia
From stability to revolution in the Maghreb
E-bok, 2016
927 kr
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The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds …
Tunisia
From stability to revolution in the Maghreb
E-bok, 2016
927 kr
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The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds …
Nature of Order, Four-Volume Set
An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Inbunden, 2005
2609 kr
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Christopher Alexander has been a legendary figure in architecture for nearly 40 years. World-renowned for his revolutionary theories on the art of building, Alexander now caps his lifetime of profoundly original thinking about the meaning and purpose of architecture with this magnum opus, The …
Nature of Order, Book Four: the Luminous Ground
An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Inbunden, 2004
666 kr
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Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, …
Unravelling the Silk Road
Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
290 kr
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Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by …
