The buildings and paintings of medieval Florence felt as if something more specific had been intended, reached for, and then achieved, beyond just the practical‑mental atmosphere and pace of great religion.

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• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.792
• The building got a level of service and design care, not only beyond what was paid for, but, in this instance, far beyond the ordinary. It was a new kind of service, not yet known today!quote0.788
  Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.
• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.787
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.778
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
• Professional architecture of the 20th century has paid too little attention to the complex, subtle structure that only living processes create, leading to environments that rob millions of common sense.claim0.775
  Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
• It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.774
  Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.773
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.771
  Love as the driving force of living creation.