The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.

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

• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.890
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.856
• The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.855
  Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
• We cannot create living order only by concentrating on appearance; we must characterize the geometry that comes from living process.claim0.855
• Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.843
• Living structure comes into being effortlessly simply as a result of following the sequence.claim0.843
  Alexander asserts that when the generative sequence is correctly ordered, the form unfolds without struggle—a central thesis of the chapter.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.842
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• In the case of buildings, if the process is a living one, the fountain of geometrical order comes above all from building structure — columns, walls, beams, vaults — specifically from the aperiodic, tartan-like grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.claim0.837
  Identifies the structural core and aperiodic grid as the primary source of geometric order in living building processes