The task of every artist and builder is to mobilize the living I in things, thereby awakening the self and connecting to the ultimate.

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• The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.808
  The separation of design and construction prevents life.
• The task of building is to produce a field of centers which makes itself completeclaim0.789
  Defines the ultimate aim of building, providing the framework for understanding ornament.
• The task of architecture—building—directly impacts the wholeness of the world, increasing or destroying living structure on a planetary scale.claim0.789
  Result of the new view: architecture becomes a vital ecological and existential issue.
• It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.785
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
• The success of mystical tradition in creating life has a practical explanation: it helped the artist dissolve his images, constructs, and concepts, and focus on reality as it is—the structure of wholeness—enabling structure‑preserving steps.claim0.783
  A mechanistic bridge between religious devotion and the process of Book 2; belief in God operated as a cognitive tool to see wholeness.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.781
• 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.claim0.778
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• The process of creating a living building requires not merely redefining functions, but rearranging and redefining the centers of function — which then opens the door to a new comfortable lifeclaim0.775
  Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9