An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.

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• The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.825
• Human beings can violate the tendency to preserve wholeness either by acting disrespectfully toward it or by failing to perceive it accurately, which explains why modern buildings often lack living structure.claim0.820
  Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency
• The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.819
  Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
• Wholeness is a real structure, an actual 'thing' in itself, not merely a way of focusing on the gestalt.claim0.816
  Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
• The individuality of every part and every place is a structural characteristic of all living tissue, in leaves and rocks and water, as in human streets and dwellings IF they have their life.claim0.813
  Universality claim: uniqueness at every scale is a hallmark of all living systems
• The existence of structure-destroying transformations as a social norm is linked to a breakdown in the perception of wholeness itself.claim0.812
  Causal link between perception and destruction.
• If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.811
  A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.808
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.