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What I have presented in these four books is intended to become a part of a new science - a first sketch of a new kind of scientific theory. Since the creation of a work of building must always be, at root, creation of living structure, I have built to the best of my ability a picture of living structure and of the processes that can generate living structure. The picture is sifficient, I belive, for working architects to carry in our minds, a vision of our task. But this picture necessarily touches physics. The existence of living structure, as I have defined it, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture which we have of architecture. And, in the most subtle phases of this work, we are forced - I believe - by the arguments presented in Book 4, to go still further. It is not enough merely to have a picture of living structure, but necessary, also, to recognize that there is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that ''THIS'' -- not something else -- is the true both of matter and of architecture. That, too, must find expression. |
Preface: Towards a New Conception of the Nature of Matter
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The Personal
4. That Exists In Me, and Before Me, and After Me
5. Changes in Our Idea of Matter
Part One
1. Our Present Picture of the Universe
1. Cosmology
2. The Strength of the Present Scientific World-Picture
3. The Weakness of the Present World-Picture
4. The Needs of Architecture
5. Scientific Efforts to Build an Improved World-Picture
6. The Continuing Lack of a Unifying Cosmology
7. Ten Tacit Assumptions Which Underlie Our Present Picture of the Universe
8. Inspiration for a Future Physics
9. The Confrontation of Art and Science
10. A Fusion of Self and Matter
2. Clues From the History of Art
1. Introduction
2. An Observation
3. Relatedness
4. A Possible Explanation
5. A Connection to the Self
6. What of Out Modern Works?
7. More on the Problem of our Era
8. The Black Plater
9. Footnote
3. The Existence of an "I"
1. A Dewdrop
2. Relatedness
3. The Mirror-of-the-Self Experiments
4. The Real Relatedness Existing Underneath the Skin
5. The Ancient and Eternal Truth of the Relatedness
6. The Numinous Experience
7. True Meaning of Relatedness
8. A Jump to Speaking About the Existence of an "I"
9. An Experiment to Determine the Extension of the I
10. The I of Our Experience Originating with the I in Things
11. A Hypothesis
12. Mobilizing the Storm
4. The Ten Thousand Beings
1. Introduction
2. Consider the Possibility of Viewing All Living Centers as Being
3. The Jewel Net of Indra
4. What it Means for a Center to be Being-Like
5. A Corner of a Farmer's Field
6. A Shipyard
7. Looking at Chartres
8. Each Living Center is a Being
9. Pure Unity
10. The Fundamental Process
11. The Difficulty of the Task
12. Innocence
13. The Vision of Matisse and Bonnard
14. In Our Own Era
15. A New Vision of Building: Making Living Structure in Our Brutal World
16. The Life of the Environment
5. The Practical Matter of Forging a Living Center
1. Intensifying Shape
2. Unity Achieved in a Great Blossom
3. Emergence of a "Being" From The Field of Centers
4. Beings in Arches, Spaces, and Columns: The Example of West Dean
5. Emergence of the Arches
6. Detailed Design of the Structural Columns
7. A Wall
8. Catching a Being in Color
9. The Haunting Melody
Mid-Book Appendix: Recapitulation of the Argument
1. Introduction
2. The Possibility of a Coherent Verifiable Theory
3. The Argument from Verifiable Details
4. The Argument From Coherence
Part Two
What I have presented in these four books is intended to become a part of a new science - a first sketch of a new kind of scientific theory.
Since the creation of a work of building must always be, at root, creation of living structure, I have built to the best of my ability a picture of living structure and of the processes that can generate living structure. The picture is sifficient, I belive, for working architects to carry in our minds, a vision of our task.
But this picture necessarily touches physics. The existence of living structure, as I have defined it, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture which we have of architecture. And, in the most subtle phases of this work, we are forced - I believe - by the arguments presented in Book 4, to go still further. It is not enough merely to have a picture of living structure, but necessary, also, to recognize that there is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS -- not something else -- is the true both of matter and of architecture. That, too, must find expression.
6. The Blazing One
7. Color and Inner Light
8. The Goal of Tears
9. Making Wholeness Heals the Maker
10. Pleasing Yourself
11. The Face of God
Conclusion to the Four Books
A Modified Picture of the Universe