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.

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• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.856
  Connection between process, attention, and love.
• 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.quote0.839
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.hypothesis0.835
  Pragmatic motivation for the entire book: a broader definition enables effective creation of life.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.834
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.828
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• 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.quote0.827
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.820
  Central premise of the chapter.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.819
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.