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The living character of the stones in medieval Florence came directly from the builders' unshakable belief in God.

A direct causal link between the solidity of belief and the quality of physical materials.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Composer whose music is cited as an example of living structure that connects us to the ground.

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The buildings and paintings of medieval Florence felt as if something more specific had been intended, reached for, and then achieved, beyond just the practical‑mental atmosphere and pace of great religion.claim0.771
Alexander's personal report of being shaken by the Florentine works, suggesting an ineffable extra dimension to mystical creation.
The places shown are living structures because they have this character (coherence, roughness, humanity).claim0.758
The selection criterion for the examples: their life resides precisely in their special character.
Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.754
Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.
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.quote0.743
Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
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.claim0.741
Love as the driving force of living creation.
The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.739
Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.734
Universal claim about all living architecture.
I believe that these properties arise because they are the principal ways in which centers can be strengthened by other centers.quote0.733
The central insight of the chapter: the fifteen properties all reduce to ways centers help each other