The Nature of Order Lecture Series, Book 4, 4 June 2020

Christopher Robin Andrews, architect, town planner, carpet maker, and ornamenteur, will speak on Chapters Six and Seven of Book Four, The Luminous Ground, of The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander: "The Blazing One" and "Color and Inner Light".

"When I see the beautiful tile, or walk into the beautiful building, it is as if I just lift up the corner of the flap and temporarily see into the blazing "one". It looks like heaven. The idea, then, is that every part of our physical world is shadowed by this parallel domain of I-stuff, and that each part of our ordinary world, if it is given the right structure, will lift the flap or open the door, and give us a glimpse into that domain." (Alexander)

"Reality as we experience it is full of color, saturated by color, dominated by color at every turn, in every point, in every line, in every shadow." (Alexander)

This week’s webinar is on Thursday, 4 June, at 15:00 UTC time.

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