The Architecture Of The Universe

Author : Richard Blum
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500631208
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the Universe written by Richard Blum and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most fundamental questions asked throughout human history is, “How did the universe come into existence?” Throughout the ages spirituality has provided answers to that question through various mystical cosmologies. Today, science has an answer—the Big Bang theory. But can scientific and spiritual explanations, which are normally considered to be incompatible, co-exist? Is it possible to construct a single comprehensive vision that unites these seemingly divergent approaches to knowledge?The Architecture of the Universe attempts to do just that by extending a contemporary mystical cosmology and merging it with modern-day physics. The result is a new theory of physics, which proposes something more fundamental to the universe than time and space: existence. Emerging out of nothingness, existence serves as the basic component of time and space. Time and space are viewed not just as containers for everything in the universe, but rather as the substance out of which energy and mass arise. This radical viewpoint opens new realms of understanding, shedding light on mysterious aspects of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity. At the same time the theory creates a vision unifying science and spirituality by linking the infinite transcendent reality with the finite physical universe.Simple explanations along with illustrations make this book easily accessible and an interesting and inspiring read for a wide audience.

Author : J. Richard Gott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691181179
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmic Web written by J. Richard Gott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semi-autobiographical discussion of astronomy and astronomers, and history of astronomy and cosmology.--

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 : 9780471977483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the Jumping Universe written by Charles Jencks and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1997-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Jencks has the uncanny capacity to announce a new movement in architecture before it has begun. With Post-Modernism, he was looking to the past. Now, for the first time, with his new book on morphogenesis he is taking a look at the future. There is no question that his argument will have an important critical effect on architecture at the beginning of the new millennium. Peter Eisenman. Architect A new paradigm is sweeping through science, changing both our view of the universe and of mankind. Charles Jencks is one of a handful of thinkers with the courage to embrace the emerging paradigm and interpret it architecturally. This inspired synthesis of art, design, science and philosophy charts a bold new course not only for architecture, but for Post-Modern thought. Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Adelaide, author of The Cosmic Blueprint, Superforce, The Mind of God and other books on contemporary science. Who else could have written a book that opens up such cosmic perspectives and still make such neat, sharply focused comments on particular architects and particular styles of architecture? Who else could range with such zest, ease and elegance from Chaos to Bruce Goff, from Coleridge to Frank Gehry, from Complexity Theory to Green Buildings? The old question of in which style should we build can never be addressed in the same way again. Charles Jencks has brought purpose back into architecture. His teleology may transcend what architects are used to, but Jencks manages to make far more sense out of our contemporary architectural dilemmas than practically all the other books in the RIBA book shop. Francis Duffy, Chairman of DEGW International Ltd

Author : Eric Huntington
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744073
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating the Universe written by Eric Huntington and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.

Author : Jean-Pierre Protzen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136970444
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universe of Design written by Jean-Pierre Protzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design. When people – alone or in groups – want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst Rittel studied this process of making plans and he developed theories – including his notion of "wicked problems" – that are used in many fields today. From product design, architecture and planning – where Rittel’s work was originally developed – to governmental agencies, business schools and software design, Rittel’s ideas are being used. This book collects previously unavailable work of Rittel’s within the framework of a discussion of Rittel’s theories and philosophical influences.

Author : B. G. Sidharth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402037864
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universe of Fluctuations written by B. G. Sidharth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universe of Fluctuations: The Architecture of Spacetime and the Universe is a path-breaking work which proposes solutions to the impasse and crisis facing fundamental physics and cosmology. It describes a cosmological model based on fuzzy spacetime that has correctly predicted a dark-energy-driven acceleration of our expanding universe - with a small cosmological constant - at a time when the popular belief was quite the contrary. It describes how the Universe is made up of an underpinning of Planck oscillators in a Quantum Vacuum. This leads to, amongst other things, a characterization of gravitation as being distributional over the entire Universe, thereby providing an answer to a puzzle brought to light by Weinberg years ago and since overlooked. There is also a simple formula for the mass spectrum of all known elementary particles, based on QCD dynamics. Many other interesting ramifications and experimental tests for the future are also discussed. This apart, there is a brief survey of some of the existing theories. The book is accessible to junior and senior researchers in High Energy Physics and Cosmology as well as the serious graduate student in Physics.

Author : Arthur Hilary Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107656737
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus written by Arthur Hilary Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1940 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1940 book assesses how the philosopher Plotinus' hierarchy of reality fits into the wider universal order, and how the historical and philosophical tradition gave rise to Plotinus' own philosophies. The book also supplies a bibliography broken down by topic for those who wish to pursue any aspect of the text in greater depth.

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Nature of Order
ISBN 13 : 0972652914
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Order: The phenomenon of life written by Christopher Alexander and published by Nature of Order. This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Book Oneof this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature and in the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years. This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.

Author : Irena Sakellaridou
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mario Botta written by Irena Sakellaridou and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents the work of the Swiss-born architect who worked as an assistant to such architecture giants as Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn before starting his own firm in 1970 and achieving international fame. Botta's characteristic respect for topographical conditions and regional sensibilities, his deft craftmanship, and the importance of geometric order in his work are evidenced in thiry projects that range from smaller residential buildings to such grandiose projects as the Church of San Giovanni Battista, the Jean Tinguely Museum and, most famously, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This detailed study also includes the designs he created for furniture and the stage. Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is a thorough survey of the architectural and design work that launched Botta into the pantheon of modern architecture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Michael S. Schneider
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062043161
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe written by Michael S. Schneider and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how mathematical sequences abound in our natural world in this definitive exploration of the geography of the cosmos You need not be a philosopher or a botanist, and certainly not a mathematician, to enjoy the bounty of the world around us. But is there some sort of order, a pattern, to the things that we see in the sky, on the ground, at the beach? In A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Schneider, an education writer and computer consultant, combines science, philosophy, art, and common sense to reaffirm what the ancients observed: that a consistent language of geometric design underpins every level of the universe, from atoms to galaxies, cucumbers to cathedrals. Schneider also discusses numerical and geometric symbolism through the ages, and concepts such as periodic renewal and resonance. This book is an education in the world and everything we can't see within it. Contains numerous b&w photos and illustrations.