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The Julian Street Inn's centers meet the four conditions lacking in the Berlin Library: strong smaller centers, non-imitative origin, emergence from wholeness, and contribution to larger centers.

Contrastive evaluation showing success of the living process.

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In the Julian Street Inn, all ornamental details are necessary because they contribute to the wholeness and make the larger wholes work better.
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Interpretation of the homeless man's observation that all parts felt necessary.

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What is it about the Julian Street Inn, and its centers, which gives them a special life, which makes them more authentic, or more deeply adapted, more truly derived from the wholeness which is there?
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Comparative question contrasting successful living process with postmodern failure.

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Julian Street Inn
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A shelter for homeless people in San Jose, California, designed and built by Alexander and colleagues in 1987-88, serving as an example of successful living process.

Related by similarity (8)

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

The apparently strong centers in Stirling's Berlin library are actually very weak due to the four defects of cut-and-paste imagery and lack of contextual emergence.claim0.832
Specific application of the four-defect critique to a canonical building.
The Julian Street Inn has the quality that every symmetry is just what is required, making those who stay there feel grounded and more whole.claim0.815
Each of the four examples (doll, Julian Street Inn, West Dean bench, Linz alcoves) has the minimal structure for its situation that carries weight of feeling.claim0.779
In the Julian Street Inn tile mockup comparison, version B (tiles held back from window frame) created greater sense of wholesomeness in observers than version A (tiles cut to frame), despite initial preference for Afinding0.762
Design case study showing the wholeness criterion can reveal non-obvious life distinctions invisible to simpler aesthetic judgments
Julian Street Inn tiled wall contains 60,000-100,000 living centers across 200 feet, each tile over 20 strong centersfinding0.755
Empirical claim about the density of living centers achieved through hand-crafted design iterative process.
In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.726
Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
Each center, then, would be a window on the eternal blinding light of this domain.claim0.714
Definition of a center as an aperture for the I-light.
The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.714
Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.