Building Places That Evoke Love and Emotional Wholeness: An essay on Nili Portugali's "The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE ORDERING A 42 PAGE ESSAY, NOT THE BOOK SHOWN.
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Dear Jerry,
What an essay! I am sure your profound understanding and insights as written in your essay will benefit all.
Thanks a lot!!!!!!
I have forwarded it to the publisher of the book and to the director of Chris Alexander’s archive.
- Nili Portugali Architect A.A.Dip
Nili Portugali is an Israeli architect, senior lecturer, researcher and published author. She specializes in public, residential, and commercial buildings, as well as interior design, landscape and urban design, all approached via a humanistic worldview. Portugali is connected to the holistic - phenomenological - Buddhist school of thought.
This essay considers the main themes underlying organic architecture.
Part 1 reviews Nili Portugali's experiential realizations, her spiritual and mystical experience living in Safad, Israel, and its impact on her vision of how structures, neighbourhoods, and towns should feel.
Part 2 looks at Nili's practical realizations and the influences of her primary teachers, Christopher Alexander and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In Part 3, the focus is the nature of pattern recognition and its relationship to emotional wholeness.
Part 4 addresses organic architecture and planning an architectural work, including examples of pattern language and the nature of wholeness and beauty.
Part 5 is a map of the themes discussed.
An addendum presents Christopher Alexander's themes on the "I" and living structure as expressed in his book "The nature of order: An essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. Book four: The luminous ground."
Here are a few points:
Underneath the infinite variety of patterns is the evocation of a shared experience: emotional wholeness, overall pleasantness, joy, happiness. These qualities can infuse works of architecture.
Once recognized in a specific site, living reality and authentic feeling are manifest or revived in two ways: (1) via the writing of a pattern language and (2) by planning the physical structure on-site.
The point of organic architecture is to build something holistic, beautiful in every order of its existence, from the curvature of the cabinet knob to the placement of the building in space.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE A 42 PAGE PDF DOCUMENT. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE ACTUAL BOOK UPON WHICH THE ESSAY IS BASED.
To order Nili's book, please visit www.niliportugali.com/
What an essay! I am sure your profound understanding and insights as written in your essay will benefit all.
Thanks a lot!!!!!!
I have forwarded it to the publisher of the book and to the director of Chris Alexander’s archive.
- Nili Portugali Architect A.A.Dip
Nili Portugali is an Israeli architect, senior lecturer, researcher and published author. She specializes in public, residential, and commercial buildings, as well as interior design, landscape and urban design, all approached via a humanistic worldview. Portugali is connected to the holistic - phenomenological - Buddhist school of thought.
This essay considers the main themes underlying organic architecture.
Part 1 reviews Nili Portugali's experiential realizations, her spiritual and mystical experience living in Safad, Israel, and its impact on her vision of how structures, neighbourhoods, and towns should feel.
Part 2 looks at Nili's practical realizations and the influences of her primary teachers, Christopher Alexander and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In Part 3, the focus is the nature of pattern recognition and its relationship to emotional wholeness.
Part 4 addresses organic architecture and planning an architectural work, including examples of pattern language and the nature of wholeness and beauty.
Part 5 is a map of the themes discussed.
An addendum presents Christopher Alexander's themes on the "I" and living structure as expressed in his book "The nature of order: An essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. Book four: The luminous ground."
Here are a few points:
Underneath the infinite variety of patterns is the evocation of a shared experience: emotional wholeness, overall pleasantness, joy, happiness. These qualities can infuse works of architecture.
Once recognized in a specific site, living reality and authentic feeling are manifest or revived in two ways: (1) via the writing of a pattern language and (2) by planning the physical structure on-site.
The point of organic architecture is to build something holistic, beautiful in every order of its existence, from the curvature of the cabinet knob to the placement of the building in space.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE A 42 PAGE PDF DOCUMENT. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE ACTUAL BOOK UPON WHICH THE ESSAY IS BASED.
To order Nili's book, please visit www.niliportugali.com/