The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.

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• 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.claim0.811
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.809
  Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.
• The complex and curved forms of natural organisms arise naturally from the wholeness of a natural site.claim0.806
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.805
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• 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.claim0.803
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.801
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.797
• the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.797
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.