A building's life is not a matter of style but of substance: the presence of living centers.

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• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.847
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.
• A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.830
  Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.
• It is the material substance of walls, floors, steps, windows, and roof — and the configuration of how they are made — which governs whether living centers can emerge and fine structure adaptation can occurclaim0.823
  Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
• All functions, when working well in a building, are associated with living centersclaim0.821
  Foundational claim linking the theory of centers to functional analysis of buildings
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.813
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.811
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.810
  Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
• The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.claim0.809
  Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.