The people who built Tofuku-ji had made that place knowing that the blue dragonfly would come; there was a level of skill beyond anything I had experienced.

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• The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.quote0.715
  Alexander's aesthetic principle explaining the appeal of the intimate scale.
• The lack of unfolding in the Japanese building complex's ground floor and inclined planes shows that they simply appeared from a whim, not from sensible adaptation.claim0.711
  Japanese building critique.
• The beautiful shape of the bridge was actually generated, dynamically, during the process of construction.claim0.708
  Observation about the Golden Gate Bridge, supporting that process can generate form.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.702
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.698
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
• The building got a level of service and design care, not only beyond what was paid for, but, in this instance, far beyond the ordinary. It was a new kind of service, not yet known today!quote0.695
  Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.
• The traditional Brazilian radial community was made by an unfolding process, while the planned new Amazon town was structure-destroying because it ignored the river edge as a center.claim0.694
  Amazon communities comparison.
• Frank Lloyd Wright used an unfolding process in his early works (prairie houses, Unity Temple) but his later works like the Guggenheim Museum were image-driven.claim0.694
  Evolution of Wright's approach.