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claim:the-ongoing-rift-between-the-mechanical-material-picture-of-the-world-and-our-intuitions-about-self-and-spirit-has-destroyed-our-architecture-and-our-sense-of-self-worth

The ongoing rift between the mechanical-material picture of the world and our intuitions about self and spirit has destroyed our architecture and our sense of self-worth.

Central thesis linking cosmology to the spiritual barrenness of modern architecture.

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meaninglessness of the mechanistic universe
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The existential consequence of the mechanistic cosmology: the world has no point, no value, no purpose, leading to despair and banality in art.

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Religion and spirituality cannot solve the world-picture problem because they do not change the underlying mechanistic view of matter.claim0.805
Spiritual overlays are frosting on the mechanistic cake; they do not penetrate or affect the way matter is conceived to work.
There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and this — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture.claim0.774
The final, most radical claim of the chapter: the I is not a metaphor but the actual foundation of material reality.
Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.774
Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.772
The outcome of using both methods together.
If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.770
In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.770
Central premise of the chapter.
The view that profound architectural form arises from sudden inspired vision is completely wrong and incompatible with how living structure is actually created through slow successive transformations.claim0.770
Alexander's architectural conclusion from his natural philosophy argument, issued as a definitive critique of modernist design ideology
It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.770
Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.