The dream of a universal style can be found at last in the results of living process, in buildings that in ultra-modern form resemble the most ancient buildings in inward essence.

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• The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.808
  Universal claim about all living architecture.
• 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.quote0.803
  Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
• The deepest living structure in buildings is not attainable without some new understanding, without a new faith based on a new physical and intellectual grasp of the nature of the material universe.claim0.797
  A strong conditional: the creation of the highest living structure requires a cosmology that reunites self and matter in terms consistent with modern science.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.794
  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.claim0.792
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.claim0.791
  Acknowledges precursors in non‑Western traditions.
• The view that profound architectural form arises from sudden inspired vision is completely wrong and incompatible with how living structure is actually created through slow successive transformations.claim0.790
  Alexander's architectural conclusion from his natural philosophy argument, issued as a definitive critique of modernist design ideology
• In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.790