No building has real life unless it is deeply and robustly functional.

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• A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.897
  Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.
• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.824
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.812
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• A building that has life creates deep feeling in the person who encounters it.claim0.812
• Most of the possible building configurations are dead ones; they do not have life.claim0.810
• To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.808
  The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.
• If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.807
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.806
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.