Christopher Alexander's Magnum Opus

Best-selling author, respected professor, and iconoclastic theorist Christopher Alexander has published a new 4-volume magnum opus.

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July 14, 2003, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

In his latest book Christopher Alexander "lays out his view that beauty is a matter neither of taste nor opinion but rather an inherent attribute of living things....'The Nature of Order' is a grandiose, polemical, sumptuously illustrated and utterly singular inquiry into what Mr. Alexander calls 'first principles': the essence of life itself."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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