A beautiful building is one whose centers reinforce each other; an agent's goal cone should cover the people it affects; care scales intelligence; every design decision budgets care.

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• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.795
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.794
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.794
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.785
  Connection between process, attention, and love.
• Good shape is built up from the simplest elementary figures; what seem like complex centers are made of simpler centers which are also alive, and these simpler centers give the complex ones their lifeclaim0.784
  Claim that even apparently organic or floral designs derive their life from geometrically simple components (triangles, rhombuses, hexagons) that allow complex cross-relationships
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.780
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• "Like a person who, in being helpful, becomes more graceful, more beautiful as a person, the building volumes become beautiful as they help the land."quote0.777
  Alexander's reflection on the reciprocal beauty when building volumes serve the land.
• The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.claim0.775
  Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.