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The essence of this state of mind is that the building must not shout. Emotionally, it must be completely quiet.

Aesthetic and psychological requirement for living structure.

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Humility
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A necessary state of mind for making living things, characterized by absence of self-importance and complete attention to the thing itself.

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The building must not shout. Emotionally, it must be completely quiet.
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Succinct description of the required emotional state of a living building.

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The core of this necessary state of mind is that you make each building in a way which is a gift to God.claim0.776
The central practical prescription of the chapter.
What I aim for is, most concretely, sadness. I try to make the volume of the building so that it carries in it all feeling. To reach this feeling, I try to make the building so that it carries my eternal sadness. It comes, as nearly as I can in a building, to the point of tears.claim0.773
The explicit artistic goal: to shape space so that it evokes tears, the most direct route to the I.
I kept on shouting out in a low voice, I did it. I could not contain myself; it was an ecstasy. Even now, ten minutes after I finished, I am still trembling.quote0.755
Alexander's first-person account of painting The Pink Cloud, capturing the ecstatic quality of truly pleasing oneself in the act of creation.
The inner voice is stilled, muffled, and there is hardly any possibility to cry out against ugliness.claim0.755
The reason why I must try and make the building as a gift to God is that this state of mind is the only one which reliably keeps me concentrated on what is.claim0.751
The practical function of the religious attitude in making.
I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.751
The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.749
A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
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.claim0.748
Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.