The client now feels unequivocally that it was all worthwhile.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.803
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• If you could accept it, it would finally make sense of all of that, because it finally answers these questions fully.claim0.800
  The plenum model provides a unifying explanation for the beauty and life of centers.
• We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.claim0.787
• For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.786
  Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.
• 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!quote0.784
  Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.
• When you are done, if you have reached what you aim for, you feel the impact of its 'presence.' This is how architecture comes about.claim0.783
  Defines the experiential criterion — felt presence — as the endpoint and definition of successful architecture
• "To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday..."concept0.783
  Fernando Pessoa epigraph capturing the core paradox: persistence requires change, yet change threatens identity.
• It is when this happens that we may sometimes feel ourselves to be in the presence of true life, true value.claim0.782
  The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.