The morphology of a living world will, in the end, be that which can only be created by grace, radiant and comfortable, and beautifully ordinary.

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• The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.822
  Universal claim about all living architecture.
• A world constructed in the most personal and individual fashion, made by people following their true I, will be — in the most public, objective, universal sense — functional, adequate, and harmonious.claim0.821
  Alexander's paradoxical conclusion that the most personally authentic making produces the most universally livable world.
• The quality of exterior space which comes from living process has a particular and definable morphology.claim0.812
  Opening claim that establishes the chapter's thesis.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.811
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• A true living world will arise only if its processes are morphogenetic.claim0.810
  Core thesis that living structure in the world requires processes that repeatedly apply the fifteen transformations.
• We cannot create living order only by concentrating on appearance; we must characterize the geometry that comes from living process.claim0.808
• The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.807
  The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.804
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.