Even the hovels of the Middle Ages had life and direct contact with the heart, more than modern plastic tract houses.

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• 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.claim0.777
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.771
  A key insight about position and context.
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.766
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.761
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.760
  Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.
• The vital centers which govern the life of a room are nearly invisible pieces of space which exist as centers, yet have no clear boundaries.claim0.759
  Describes the subtlety of room centers.
• the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.758
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.758
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.