Christopher Alexander and His Life’s Work: The Nature of Order

Abstract

This editorial briefly introduces Christopher Alexander, as a theorist, as a design practitioner, as an architect, and importantly as a scientist, as well as his life’s work—The Nature of Order—focusing not only on the trinity of wholeness, life, beauty, but also on his new organic cosmology.

Keywords

• life
• beauty
• wholeness
• living structure
• organic view of space