BedZed, elegant as it is, is still a technical product that lacks the deeper properties of something truly living or truly sustainable.

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• A thing which is well-made, and beautiful … will always be isomorphic to nothingness — it will have the same structure as emptiness.claim0.722
  The ultimate simplicity: living forms share the structure of the Void.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.716
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Simplicity as depth has been replaced by a mechanical idea of simplicity as the geometrically banal.claim0.713
  Alexander critiques modern architecture's misunderstanding of simplicity.
• The deepest living structure in buildings is not attainable without some new understanding, without a new faith based on a new physical and intellectual grasp of the nature of the material universe.claim0.712
  A strong conditional: the creation of the highest living structure requires a cosmology that reunites self and matter in terms consistent with modern science.
• The building got a level of service and design care, not only beyond what was paid for, but, in this instance, far beyond the ordinary. It was a new kind of service, not yet known today!quote0.711
  Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.
• I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.710
  The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
• Architecture cannot be good so long as we try to do it within a mechanical conception of matter.claim0.710
  The impossibility of good architecture under mechanistic cosmology.
• Simplicity is a spiritually achieved state of art.claim0.710
  Claims the spiritual dimension of true simplicity.