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The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.

The separation of design and construction prevents life.

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How Living Process Generates The Process Of Construction
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Chapter 15 of Vol. 3, arguing that the living quality of buildings depends on a process of making that allows continuous feedback and adaptation.

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We must have a vision of the world in which life, as the foundation of all architecture, is understood as something objective and inspiring.claim0.827
The requirement for a new cosmology that makes life objective.
As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.claim0.825
Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.
I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.hypothesis0.824
Predictive claim about the sufficiency of the being-rule for creating life.
Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.822
Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.814
Emphasizes process over blueprint.
It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.814
Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
"Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."concept0.813
Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
The task of every artist and builder is to mobilize the living I in things, thereby awakening the self and connecting to the ultimate.claim0.808
The ultimate purpose of making.