Alexander, Christopher

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Author documents cited by Kairos documents

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• [2009]  Harmony-Seeking Computations: a science of non-classical dynamics based on the progressive evolution of the larger whole. International Journal for Unconventional Computing (IJUC), 5, 2009
• [2007]  Empirical Findings from The Nature of Order. Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, 18, 2007, (1): 11-19.
• [2005]  The Nature of Order. Berkeley, Center for Environmental Structure, 2005
• [2004]  The Nature of Order: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the Universe, 2004 [summary]
• [2003]  The Nature of Order: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. Center for Environmental Structure, 2003-4. [summary]
• [2003]  New Concepts in Complexity Theory: an overview of the four books of the Nature of Order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised. 2003
• [2002]  The Nature of Order: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. Center for Environmental Structure, 2002-5 [summary]
• [1993]  A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: the color and geometry of very early Turkish carpets. Oxford University Press, 1993 [review]
• [1979]  The Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, 1979
• [1979]  A Pattern Language: towns, buildings, construction. Oxford University Press, 1979
• [1977]  TheTimeless Way of Building (vol 1); A Pattern Language (vol 2). Oxford University Press, 1977
• [1977]  The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press, 1977 [summary]
• [1977]  A Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press, 1977
• [1977]  A Pattern Language: towns, buildings, construction. Oxford University Press, 1977
• [1975]  The Oregon Experiment. Oxford University Press, 1975
• [1966]  Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press, 1966
• [1965]  Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press, 1965 [summary]
• [1964]  Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Harvard University Press, 1964
• [1963]  Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press, 1963

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Kairos documents referencing any of the above

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[2018]:  Post-Apocalyptic Renaissance of Global Civilization [Refs]

[2018]:  Cognitive Implication of Globality via Temporal Inversion [Refs]

[2018]:  Cognitive Embodiment of Nature Re-cognized Systemically [Refs]

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[2017]:  Reconciling Symbols of Islam, Judaism and Christianity [Refs]

[2017]:  Interplay of Sustainable Development Goals through Rubik Cube Variations [Refs]

[2017]:  Envisaging NATO Otherwise -- in 3D and 4D? [Refs]

[2016]:  Variety of System Failures Engendered by Negligent Distinctions [Refs]

[2016]:  Unquestioned Bias in Governance from Direction of Reading? [Refs]

[2016]:  Improvisation in Multivocal Poetic Discourse [Refs]

[2016]:  Destabilizing Multipolar Society through Binary Decision-making [Refs]

[2016]:  Cultivating the Myth of Human Equality [Refs]

[2015]:  Weather Metaphors as Whether Metaphors [Refs]

[2015]:  Radicalisation of Existence and Identity [Refs]

[2015]:  Psychosocial Implication in Polyhedral Animations in 3D [Refs]

[2015]:  Optimizing Web Surfing Pathways for the Overloaded [Refs]

[2015]:  Memetic Analogue to the 20 Amino Acids as vital to psychosocial life? [Refs]

[2015]:  Global Psychosocial Implication in the Pentagramma Mirificum [Refs]

[2015]:  Enhancing Strategic Discourse Systematically using Climate Metaphors [Refs]

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[2015]:  Dying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie [Refs]

[2015]:  Dreamables, Deniables, Deliverables and Duende [Refs]

[2015]:  Correlating a Requisite Diversity of Metaphorical Patterns [Refs]

[2015]:  Confusion in Exchanging Something for Nothing [Refs]

[2014]:  The-O ring: Theory, Theorem, Theology, Theosophy? [Refs]

[2014]:  The-O Ring and The Bull Ring as Spectacular Archetypes [Refs]

[2014]:  Representation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions [Refs]

[2014]:  Now as the Ultimate Cognitive Strange Attractor [Refs]

[2014]:  Life-skill Learning from Animal Shareholders and Collaborators [Refs]

[2014]:  Is the World View of a Holy Father Necessarily Full of Holes? [Refs]

[2014]:  Imagining Order as Hypercomputing [Refs]

[2014]:  Flowering of Civilization -- Deflowering of Culture [Refs]

[2014]:  Correspondences between Traditional Constellations and Pattern Languages [Refs]

[2014]:  Adhering to Gods Plan in a Global Society [Refs]

[2013]:  Wholth as Sustaining Dynamic of Health and Wealth [Refs]

[2013]:  University of Ignorance [Refs]

[2013]:  Sensing Epiterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) [Refs]

[2013]:  Reimagining Principles Enabling an Existential Ecostery [Refs]

[2013]:  Potential of Feynman Diagrams for Challenging Psychosocial Relationships? [Refs]

[2013]:  Metaphors To Die By [Refs]

[2013]:  Law and Order vs. Lore and Orders? [Refs]

[2013]:  Going Nowhere through Not-knowing Where to Go [Refs]

[2013]:  Eliciting a Universe of Meaning [Refs]

[2013]:  Being a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice [Refs]

[2013]:  Being Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting [Refs]

[2013]:  Affinity, Diaspora, Identity, Reunification, Return [Refs]

[2012]:  Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness? [Refs]

[2012]:  Transforming and Interweaving the Ways of Being Stoned [Refs]

[2012]:  Middle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry [Refs]

[2012]:  In Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations [Refs]

[2012]:  Implication of Indwelling Intelligence in Global Confidence-building [Refs]

[2012]:  Imaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization [Refs]

[2012]:  Experience of Cognitive Implication in Fundamental Geometry [Refs]

[2012]:  Enabling Wisdom Dynamically within Intertwined Tori [Refs]

[2012]:  Configuring the Varieties of Experiential Nothingness [Refs]

[2011]:  Triangulation of Incommensurable Concepts for Global Configuration [Refs]

[2011]:  Topological Clues to a Memorable 12-fold Systemic Pattern [Refs]

[2011]:  The Consensus Delusion [Refs]

[2011]:  Strategic Complexity -- Attracting Consensus [Refs]

[2011]:  Reframing the Dynamics of Engaging with Otherness [Refs]

[2011]:  Mind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse [Refs]

[2011]:  Massive Elicitation of Psychosocial Energy [Refs]

[2011]:  Living as an Imaginal Bridge between Worlds [Refs]

[2011]:  Implication of Toroidal Transformation of the Crown of Thorns: Design challenge to enable integrative comprehension [Refs]

[2011]:  Humanitarian Disaster or Act of God -- Dangerous Implication in Practice? [Refs]

[2011]:  Freedom, Democracy, Justice: Isolated Nouns or Interwoven Verbs? [Refs]

[2011]:  Eliciting a 12-fold Pattern of Generic Operational Insights [Refs]

[2011]:  Being in the Flow on Strategic Highways and Byways [Refs]

[2010]:  Warp and Weft of Future Governance [Refs]

[2010]:  Superquestions for Supercomputers [Refs]

[2010]:  Strategic Embodiment of Time: Configuring questions fundamental to change [Refs]

[2010]:  Missing the New Renaissance? [Refs]

[2010]:  Magic Carpets as Psychoactive Systems Diagrams [Refs]

[2010]:  Interweaving Thematic Threads and Learning Pathways [Refs]

[2010]:  Harmony-Comprehension and Wholeness-Extending [Refs]

[2010]:  Epistemological Panic in the face of Nonduality [Refs]

[2010]:  Engendering Invagination and Gastrulation of Globalization [Refs]

[2010]:  Enacting Transformative Integral Thinking through Playful Elegance [Refs]

[2010]:  Designing Global Self-governance for the Future [Refs]

[2010]:  Circulation of the Light: Essential metaphor of global sustainability? [Refs]

[2010]:  Adaptive Hypercycle of Sustainable Psychosocial Self-organization [Refs]

[2009]:  Strategic Dialogue through Poetic Improvisation: web resources [Refs]

[2009]:  Periodic Pattern of Human Life [Refs]

[2009]:  In Quest of a Job vs Engendering Employment [Refs]

[2009]:  Geometry of Thinking for Sustainable Global Governance [Refs]

[2008]:  Topology of Valuing: dynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations [Refs]

[2008]:  Strategic Challenge of Polysensorial Knowledge: bringing the "elephant" into "focus" [Refs]

[2008]:  Self-reflexive Challenges of Integrative Futures [Refs]

[2008]:  Psychodynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations [Refs]

[2008]:  Dynamics of Symmetry Group Theorizing [Refs]

[2007]:  Imagining the Real Challenge and Realizing the Imaginal Pathway of Sustainable Transformation [Refs]

[2004]:  Configuring Conceptual Polarities in Questing: metaphoric pointers to self-reflexive coherence [Refs]

[2001]:  Structuring Mnemonic Encoding of Development Plans and Ethical Charters using Musical Leitmotivs [Refs]

[2000]:  Metaphoric entrapment in time: avoiding the trap of Project Logic [Refs]

[2000]:  And When the Bombing Stops? Territorial conflict as a challenge to mathematicians [Refs]

[1998]:  Being Other Wise: dynamics of a meaningfully sustainable lifestyle [Refs]

[1997]:  Future Generation through Global Conversation: in quest of collective well-being through conversation in the present moment [Refs]

[1996]:  From Information Highways to Songlines of the Noosphere: Global configuration of hypertext pathways [Refs]

[1995]:  Gardening Sustainable Psycommunities: Recognizing the psycho-social integrities of the future [Refs]

[1994]:  Developing a Metaphorical Language for the Future [Refs]

[1991]:  Metaphors as Transdisciplinary Vehicles of the Future [Refs]

[1991]:  Les Metaphores comme Vehicules Transdisciplinaires de lAvenir [Refs]

[1988]:  Reordering Networks of Incommensurable Concepts in Phased Cycles [Refs]

[1988]:  Metaphoric Revolution: in quest of a manifesto for governance through metaphor [Refs]

[1987]:  Governance Through Metaphor [Refs]

[1983]:  Development through Alternation [Refs]

[1982]:  Functional Classification in an Integrative Matrix of Human Preoccupations (Part 2) [Refs]

[1982]:  Development as Discontinuous Societal Learning: Cyclic transformation of the global answer economy [Refs]

[1982]:  Alternation between Development Modes [Refs]

[1981]:  Beyond Method: engaging opposition in psycho-social organization [Refs]

[1981]:  Beyond Edge-bound Comprehension and Modal Impotence: combining q-holes through a pattern language [Refs]

[1979]:  The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in therepresentation of human activities and their relationships [Refs]

[1979]:  The Associative Society of the Future [Refs]

[1979]:  Groupware Configurations of Challenge and Harmony: an alternative approach to alternative organization [Refs]