additional material:Some half a century later, Alexander's seminal contribution continues. He has recently published his latest four-volume magnum opus, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. The grand title, and equally grand and dense text, has fuelled a perception in some quarters that Alexander's career somewhere derailed from his earlier, rigorous scientific path, into a gauzy world of mysticism, solipsism or worse.1
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