I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.

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• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.848
• If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.836
• It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.829
  Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
• To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.quote0.824
  Alexander's programmatic statement linking his natural philosophy to his architectural agenda
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.824
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.823
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.821
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.hypothesis0.817
  Predictive claim about the sufficiency of the being-rule for creating life.