No building has the wabi-sabi, rusty, imperfect quality at the time when it is built; but some buildings and landscapes invite it, encourage it, foster it.

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• True spirituality in a building is achieved when there is a balance of perfection and roughness — wabi-to-sabi.claim0.818
  The essence requires allowing roughness for the sake of essential beauty.
• A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.781
  Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
• 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.claim0.776
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• A building, or a building detail, or a painting, is, to some degree or other, spirit.claim0.775
  The claim that made things are actual realizations of spirit, in their material substance.
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.774
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
• No building is ever really complete – inhabitants' requirements change, environment changes. Repair should lose sense of 'incorrectness' and become redesign opportunity.concept0.774
  Alexander's foundational insight about iterative system improvement that motivates the piecemeal growth approach.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.766
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.766