The Northumberland house has living structure solidly built throughout its fabric, each part being a profound and living center.

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

• The places shown are living structures because they have this character (coherence, roughness, humanity).claim0.779
  The selection criterion for the examples: their life resides precisely in their special character.
• It is the material substance of walls, floors, steps, windows, and roof — and the configuration of how they are made — which governs whether living centers can emerge and fine structure adaptation can occurclaim0.770
  Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
• Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.770
  Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.770
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• The structure of living centers appears in natural things — snowdrops, waves, clouds, mountains, foxes, grains of sand — and these too resemble the human self, requiring that there be a deep connection under the surface.claim0.767
  Alexander's argument that self-likeness in natural forms cannot be explained by artistic intention alone, requiring Proposition 2 for theoretical coherence.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.766
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• 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.quote0.761
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.761
  A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.