The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three – A Vision of a Living World

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, rooms, gardens, engineering structures, and construction techniques. All these examples include some 600 pages of illustrated material, and more than 200 color pictures.
All this is done in the context of Alexander’s attempt to demonstrate the kind of buildings, and the kind of world, which will necessarily follow from the application of the living processes he has defined in Book 2. The text not only describes the ways in which these many projects, and their form, follow necessarily from the living processes and techniques that Alexander advocates. At the end of each chapter, he presents a short summary in which the underlying morphological invariants, present in any living environment, appear as a consequence of the living processes he has described, and as they must arise in any use of living processes to create the world.
The book was exhibited at Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, together with others in Science Cabinet #1.