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book:book-1-of-the-nature-of-order-the-phenomenon-of-lifeBook 1 of The Nature of Order (The Phenomenon of Life)
Referenced for the theory of wholeness, centers, and the mirror of the self test.
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- A building that has life creates deep feeling in the person who encounters it.
- A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.
- A small center, like a chamfered corner or a crown molding color, can help the life of a much larger center.
- All living process hinges on the production of deep feeling.
- Any made thing has the obligation to create experience of deep feeling in us.
- Every wholeness carries a latent structure that we must feel to perform structure-preserving transformations.
- Feeling gives us a feeling of what to do next in the unfolding of the whole.
- Feeling is a way of grasping the wholeness of a situation.
- Feeling is not an emotional move away from precision; it is a move towards precision.
- Feeling is not enough; ecological facts are necessary to make a sustainable fishpond (Sim Van der Ryn's position).
- In any living process, the next step which is most structure-enhancing is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.
- In each step of a living process one must be able to feel, ahead of time, the feeling which will later exist in the finished object, without yet knowing its form in detail.
- In the black columns, the key was the initial vision of dark glowing feeling, achieved through intense inner effort, not just trial-and-error painting.
- It is the geometric engine which does the work, and which creates the feeling of the color.
- Real feeling, true feeling, is the experience of the whole.
- The artist should not express his feelings into the work; instead the work should generate feeling in the observer.
- The Berryessa house has many stairs making it hard for old people, and a separate bedroom means going through rain, which might be considered a functional problem.
- The deep feeling concerns the whole; practical issues are secondary and do not outweigh the wholeness.
- The feeling comes from the object back to me after it is made, does not go from me to the object while I am making it.
- The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.
- The feeling we seek is a condition in which the artist opens himself to the whole, allows the whole to appear within him.
- The feeling which steers us is a vision of the emotional substance of the coming work.
- The feeling-based process may have a million steps, but each is governed by trying to increase feeling.
- The fragmentation of modern industrial process makes it difficult to pay attention to the whole, but a society based on feeling is an attainable ideal.
- The living process can be steered by the extent to which it has deep feeling in it.
- The procedure of intensifying deep feeling in the whole gives us direct access to the core of living process.
- The proportions of the music cabinet were found by keeping the feeling constant and searching for geometry that matched that feeling.
- The pure black columns in the Great Hall, as built by Ishiguro, lack the depth of feeling that the dark reddish black mockups possessed.
- To make a pond have life, we must have a clear inner feeling of what life in the pond will be like, beyond ecological knowledge.
- Traditional builders paid attention to the feeling of the emerging structure, allowing them to stay within the guidelines of the transforming whole.
- We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.
- We carry the feeling, in the form of a dimly held vision of emotional substance, before we know the form.
- What is most important is the feeling, the life one experiences there, not exaggerated functional worries.
- While making, we carry a dimly held vision of emotional substance as we move forward through concrete acts.
- Wholeness can be felt; using feeling to grasp the whole is a move towards precision.
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- The chapter presenting the argument that deep feeling is the core of living process, illustrated with examples from architecture, painting, and design.