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claim:shapes-have-been-found-which-within-the-scheme-of-unfolding-are-able-to-express-the-deepest-feeling-directlyShapes have been found, which, within the scheme of unfolding, are able to express the deepest feeling directly.
Author's assessment that the discovered geometries can carry profound feeling.
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- The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
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- Key principle about images vs. unfolding.
- The mystery that beautiful geometry often yields good structural behavior is acknowledged but not yet fully explained mathematically.
- The dual validation of living process: life and the emergence of architectural order.
- In nature, unfolding often consists of a process that establishes local symmetries one by one.claim0.810Connects biological morphogenesis to architectural process.
- Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
- New assumption #9: the melting transparency of increasing wholeness.