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• Gendlin and Alexander: #Draft 1

  One way to start the work of comparing Alexander and Gendlin is to note that Alexander’s early and poetic book The Timeless Way of Building centers around the notion of a certain Quality Without a Name, looking at it from various angles using various words that illuminate it while never fully capturing it. This would delight Gendlin, who writes that in the practice of focusing “you need not stop with feelings that seem to come with readymade labels” and that you should “welcome especially those that come without names.”

• Gendlin and Alexander: #Draft 2

  Christopher Alexander’s basic approach to architecture is to work with this kind of bodily wisdom and intentionality, to learn to follow “the direction of healing and life.” Contact with felt senses then allows for explication, unfolding, and formulating conceptual Patterns that can be shared with others in the practice of building. From The Timeless Way of Building: