The nature of order Book

Although Christopher Alexander begins with architecture, what he is saying can so easily be extrapolated to describe all living processes. I'm reminded in his writing of John Berger's description of the poetic as a "shelter to the experience which demanded, which cried out" (c.f. And Our Faces). There has always been a resonance between theatre and architecture, between the poetic and building'my mentors' teacher Jacques Lecoq pinpoints this when he says that as theatre creators, we must be "architects of the inner life" (c.f. The Moving Body). Many of the concepts that Alexander introduces in his book are similar to those of the gift as described by Lewis Hyde. The living process that Alexander describes is, like the gift, something that cannot be made, but only generated. There is an element of giving up control and surrendering to that which already exists. Within this recursive, iterative process of creation, something beyond our control can emerge.