The Nature of Order Lecture Series, Book 4, 21 May 2020

Beauty and the Nature of Matter: The Legacy of Christopher Alexander, with Nikos Salingaros

Is beauty an intrinsic part of how the universe works? In the first 50 pages of his book The Nature of Order, Book 4: The Luminous Ground, Christopher Alexander describes the connective process that leads to life’s greatest experiences, which are also felt from great architecture. Yet architectural culture and education avoid this intimate connection, ignoring the tools necessary to achieve living structure, which come from the humanistic and religious mind-sets in past societies. Part of the blame goes to the mechanistic model used in science to derive useful results, but which has now supplanted reality. A strictly mechanistic worldview allows no place for an architecture that connects with our deepest self, thereby reducing the complexity of existence and life.

This week’s webinar is on Thursday, 16:00 UK time.

If you would like to attend the webinar series, please send an email to natureoforder@buildingbeauty.org and ask to be included.