The Phenomenon Of Life

The first book of the four volume opus The NatureOfOrder by architect ChristopherAlexander. In bookstores, now (from June, 2003). (And Amazon, too.)

ISBN 0195106393 (UK edition, Aug. 2003; US Amazon site does not list it, so use http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195106393/portlandpatternrA/.)

ISBN 0972652914

You can look at all the patterns stuff a whole lot differently after reading this book. You can see the glimpse of his ideas in AnewTheoryOfUrbanDesign?. -- JuneKim

June, I've just finished reading it and would very much like to discuss it. To make a start: In which way did the book change your view of patterns? -- HelmutLeitner

Perhaps you were expecting a DefinitionOfLife?

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