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claim:just-make-it-nice-at-every-spot-and-life-enters-the-structureJust make it nice at every spot, and life enters the structure.
Practical maxim from teaching: attending to each spot's wonderfulness is the core of living design.
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- An experiential exercise Alexander gave to students to teach that every spot must be wonderful.
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- Chapter 12: Every Part UniqueintroducesThe chapter itself, arguing that living process creates uniqueness at every scale.
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- At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.818Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
- Maxim for the demanding effort of genuinely center-based design.
- The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
- If we can only learn how to please ourselves, that prescription by itself will always create living structure.hypothesis0.808The conditional claim that true self-pleasing is sufficient for generating living structure in all cases.
- The equivalence claim that true pleasure and living structure are the same thing; the word 'truly' contains the whole space of the four books.
- To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.quote0.799Alexander's programmatic statement linking his natural philosophy to his architectural agenda
- Guiding principle for arranging structures in a garden.
- Succinct statement of the central thesis about ornament and animal figures.