The theoretical and factual substance of the world, its structure and its life, are congruent with the feelings we all have, not with professional architectural images.

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• 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 occurclaim0.806
  Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
• 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.quote0.803
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• 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.claim0.803
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.803
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• The individuality of every part and every place is a structural characteristic of all living tissue, in leaves and rocks and water, as in human streets and dwellings IF they have their life.claim0.801
  Universality claim: uniqueness at every scale is a hallmark of all living systems
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.801
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.797
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.
• The physical structure of the world is generated by its processes.claim0.796
  States that the form of buildings and cities is an outcome of the processes that create them, even when unintended.