The core of architecture is that whatever is made is always the simplest thing consistent with its necessities of feeling and continuous attention to feeling while it evolves into form.

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• IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.926
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• Architecture can be understood as a sequence of local symmetry-creation in which each new symmetry intensifies the feeling of the whole.claim0.822
• The core of a living process—whether a building is large or small—is that it comes from people, from their inner desires—and genuinely does so; that it meets their archetypal core, and thereby makes them feel at homequote0.818
  Concise statement of the people-centered foundation of living process.
• There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and this — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture.claim0.815
  The final, most radical claim of the chapter: the I is not a metaphor but the actual foundation of material reality.
• "There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture."quote0.812
  Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.812
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.803
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.800
  Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.